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Award-winning musicologist Erik Broess joins Shepherd School faculty

Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music is pleased to welcome award-winning educator Erik Broess as Assistant Professor of Musicology. Broess, who comes to Rice from Boston University, specializes in rock, metal and jazz through the lenses of music technology and sound studies. He earned his Ph.D. in music history from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), where his thesis, “Unobtainable: Electric Guitar Gear and the Mythology of Tone,” explored the cultural significance of tone for electric guitarists.