Todd Decker

Todd Decker
Education
Occupations
  • Musicologist
  • professor

Todd Decker is an American musicologist. He is the Paul Tietjens Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis.[1] Decker edited the journal American Music from 2020 to 2022.

Decker was graduated from Fresno Pacific College in 1989, then earned a Master of Music degree in harpsichord from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1991. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2007 and joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis that same year.[1]

Decker's research, teaching, and publications generally focus on American popular music from 1920 to the present, with particular emphasis on the Broadway and Hollywood musical, Hollywood film music (and sound), the recorded popular music industry, and pre-1970 jazz.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Todd Decker". Washington University in St. Louis | Department of Music. Retrieved March 28, 2021.