Dr. David Metzer, B.A. (Dickinson), M.Phil, Ph.D. (Yale)
Professor, Musicology, Jazz Studies

Office: 604.822.2246, Room 403
Email: david.metzer(at)ubc.ca
CV: Dr. David Metzer

David Metzer’s work explores a range of twentieth and twenty-first century styles, including classical, jazz, and pop.  He is currently working on a book dealing with this history of the ballad in American popular music from the 1950s to the present.

Dr. Metzer’s publications included Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Quotation and Cultural Meaning in Twentieth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press, 2003).  He has had articles published in Popular Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Black Music Research Journal, and Modernism/Modernity, among other journals.