E-mail
matthew.butterfield@fandm.edu
Phone
717-358-4620
Office
Meyran 302
Courses
- Fundamentals
- Jazz
- History of the Blues
- Theory 1
- Theory 2
- Musicianship 1
- Musicianship 2
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Matthew Butterfield
Assistant Professor of Music
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Matthew Butterfield specializes in American music, particularly jazz and blues. Trained as a jazz pianist, he received his bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1991, and then earned his Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. He has taught courses in music theory and history at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Eastern Illinois University, and the University of Virginia. Before coming to F&M, he spent a year studying blues history as a post-doctoral fellow in music theory at the University of Chicago.
His dissertation, "Jazz Analysis and the Production of Musical Community: A Situational Perspective" concerned the complex relationships between music perception, social behavior, and situational structure (a function of the social, economic, temporal, spatial, and acoustic organization of musical events). Recent articles include "Music Analysis and the Social Life of Jazz Recordings", published in Current Musicology, and "The Musical Object Revisited", published in Music Analysis. Present research projects include a study of expressive microtiming in popular groove-based musics, and a book on jazz and rock appropriations of the the blues, which focuses on the function of race in American popular music and culture.
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