Mark Katz

Mark Katz is John P. Barker Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Founding Director of the hip hop cultural diplomacy program, Next Level. His books include Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music (2004, rev. 2010), Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ (2012), and Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World (2019). He is co-editor of Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History (2012) and former editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music. In 2016 he was awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association. Katz has served on the Boards of Directors of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music. He is a former department chair and directed UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities between 2014 and 2018.