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Email: jburton [at] rider.edu

Phone Number: (609) 895-5692

Department: Department of Media Arts

Office Location: Fine Arts Building

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Academic Focus: Music Production

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Email: jburton [at] rider.edu

Phone Number: (609) 895-5692

Department: Department of Media Arts

Office Location: Fine Arts Building

Additional Info:

Academic Focus: Music Production

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)
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