John Shepherd

Chancellor’s Professor of Music and Sociology,
and Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
512D Tory Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
tel. 613-520- 2600 x8340
fax. 613-520-4049
Email: john_shepherd@carleton.ca

B.A., B.Mus. (Carleton), D.Phil. (York, U.K.), A.R.C.M. (Royal College of Music), F.R.S.C.

Professor Shepherd is cross-appointed to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the School for Studies in Art and Culture, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture. He teaches cultural theory, cultural studies, the sociology and aesthetics of music, popular music studies, and theory and method in musicology. Professor Shepherd was from 1991-1997 the founding Director of Carleton's School for Studies in Art and Culture, and from 1999-2000 the Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. From 2001-2005 he was an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and from 2005-2006 the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research.

Professor Shepherd's research interests include the sociology and aesthetics of music, popular music studies, theory and method in musicology, cultural studies, and the sociology of music education. He has lectured extensively on these subjects in North America, Europe, Australia, South America and the Caribbean.

Since 1995, Professor Shepherd has been Chair of the Editorial Board of the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, a 23-volume reference work published by the Continuum International Publishing Group. Volume I (Media, Industry and Society) and Volume II (Performance and Production) were published in 2003. Volumes III-VII, on Locations, were published in 2005.

Professor Shepherd's other publications include Music as Social Text (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991), Music and Cultural Theory (with Peter Wicke) (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997) and, as co-editor (with Valda Blundell and Ian Taylor), Relocating Cultural Studies: Developments in Theory and Research (London: Routledge, 1993), and (with Tony Bennett, Simon Frith, Lawrence Grossberg and Graeme Turner), Rock and Popular Music: Politics, Policies, Institutions (London: Routledge, 1993).

Professor Shepherd's research was recognised by Carleton University in 1992 through the award of the Davidson Dunton Research Lectureship. Professor Shepherd is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Graduate Program in Musicology, York University, and in the Department of Music, University of Ottawa. Professor Shepherd was in 2000 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.