Tyler Bickford (MA 2006, MPhil 2007 in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University; BA 2001 with concentrations in Music and Modern Studies from Simon's Rock College) is the Editor-in-Chief of Current Musicology. He is conducting research for his dissertation about the media ecology and expressive practices of children at a rural New England school. His article, "Music of Poetry and Poetry of Song: Expressivity and Grammar in Vocal Performance" [pdf] (Ethnomusicology 51/3) explores the phonetics and phonology of expressive singing in a performance by Bob Dylan. Tyler has presented papers about karaoke, the "tween" music brand Kidz Bop, childhood music consumption, and linguistics and singing to meetings of SEM, IASPM-US, and the Humanities and Technology Association. His MA thesis, "Popular Music on Display in New York City Karaoke," considered amateur performance practice as a critical site of local discourse about popular culture.