Justin D Burton is professor of music at Rider University, teaching primarily in the music production degree and in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. Burton’s research revolves around matters of gender, race, and class in hip-hop, dance, and pop music, and their book Posthuman Rap engages the ways rappers use transgressive tropes to liberatory ends. Burton is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music and has also published in venues that include Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of the Society for American Music, Shima, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, and Sounding Out! Burton has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Society for American Music and is currently coeditor of the media reviews section of the Global Hip Hop Studies journal.
