Robert W. Fry is a principal senior lecturer in musicology and ethnomusicology at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee, where he teaches courses in global music, jazz, blues, popular music, and music tourism. His research focuses on music tourism and the role of fan culture in the production of a musical place.
I often begin my popular and global music courses with an exploration of the roles the media, academia, and we, as musicians, fans, and scholars, play in shaping
