Matt Brounley
Matt Brounley is a musicologist who specializes in the history of popular music and the electric guitar. He received his PhD from Stony Brook University and teaches music history at Rutgers University and Long Island University.
He has presented at numerous international conferences and his written work can be found in The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar and Americas: A Hemispheric Music Journal.
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He has also published articles on the history of electric guitar design and Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville brand. In the past, he worked in the musical instrument industry managing large musical instrument stores in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Jessica and is currently working on a book project about guitar tone. The title is That Sound in Your Head: Guitar Tone Values and Neoliberalism.
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