Justin D Burton (PhD in Musicology, Rutgers University, 2009) is Professor of Music and teaches for the Music Production major, the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, and the Baccalaureate Honors Program. Justin's scholarship and teaching revolve around gender, race, and class in the context of hip hop and pop music.
Selected Publications
- Posthuman Rap. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- “Make Him Give Me Einstein: Pop Trap and Black Women’s Pleasure,” Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture: Hip Hop. Ed. Rob Turner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025. Co-authored with Brea M Heidelberg.
- Hip-Hop & Comics. Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, forthcoming 2025. Co-edited with Sheena Howard and Brea M Heidelberg.
- “They Can Hear Us: Surveillance and Race in A Quiet Place,” Sounding Out! Ed. Jennifer Stoever, Liana Silva, and Aaron Trammel. New York: New York University Press, forthcoming 2025.
- “‘Now She Wanna Lick My Plum’: Azealia Banks and the Undoing of AntiBlackness,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies 3:2 (2018): 133-42.
- Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Co-editor with Jason Lee Oakes. Available at https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190281090.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190281090
- “Welcome to the Dirty South: Listening to the Politics of Southern Hip Hop in an Ecomusicological Framework,” Journal of Music History Pedagogy 8:1 (2017): 28-44.
- “Azealia Banks, Seapunk, and Atlantis: An Embattled Humanist Mixtape,” Shima 10:2 (2016): 81-93.
- Special Issue of Journal of Popular Music Studies 27:4, “Sounding Global Southernness” (2015). Co-editor with Ali Colleen Neff.
Selected Courses
- Digital Composition of Popular Music (MUS 213)
- Digital Synthesis (MUS 313)
- Digital Mixing & Mastering (MUS 316)
- Digital DJing (MUS 116)
- Intro to Gender Studies (GSS 100)
- Music and Technology in a Mobile Society (MUS 215)
- Welcome to the Dirty South (MUS 495)
- Gender and Sexuality in Hip Hop and R&B (BHP 321)
- Music and Literature (BHP 270)