Melinda LaTour

Melinda Latour is Rumsey Family Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Arts and Assistant Professor of Musicology at Tufts University. Her scholarship on early music has appeared in Music and Letters , the Journal of Musicology , and the Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music. She has recently published an edited collection (co-edited with Robert Fink and Zachary Wallmark), The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music (2018), which won the Ruth A. Solie Award from the...See more

Melinda Latour is Rumsey Family Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Arts and Assistant Professor of Musicology at Tufts University. Her scholarship on early music has appeared in Music and Letters , the Journal of Musicology , and the Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music. She has recently published an edited collection (co-edited with Robert Fink and Zachary Wallmark), The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music (2018), which won the Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. See less