Indiana music industry expert witnesses advise on recording, publishing, touring, and label operations with practical industry insight. They often come from artist management, entertainment law, audio engineering, and royalty accounting, with ties to Indianapolis venues and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. They commonly evaluate contract performance, rights ownership, royalty calculations, and professional standards across music production and distribution.
American Popular Culture & Music History Expert Witness
American Popular Culture & Music History Expert Witness
- Review Fee
- $375/hr
- Deposition Fee
- $625/hr
This performing artist and scholar of twentieth century American culture served among the first curators of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA in Sociology and Fine Arts from Montclair State University and completed a doctoral degree focused on American Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He has served as a faculty member in the American Studies departments of Penn College, Indiana University, and Radford University, while also acting as a Senior Fellow of the Laurasian Institution, which fosters cultural exchange between Asia and North America. Having published on Blues and the American 1960's counterculture, he reviews a number of scholarly journals, such as the American Quarterly, the Journal of Social Media Studies, and the African American Review.
Lecturer of American Culture, a prominent Michigan university
Independent Coursework, the Juilliard School
Ann Arbor,
Michigan