Mike Alleyne

Recording Industry Professor Mike Alleyne is the author of numerous books on popular music and recording artists, including "The Essential Hendrix" (2020) and "The Encyclopedia of Reggae" (2012). Born in London, England, to parents from the Caribbean nation of Barbados, he has lectured and presented conference papers internationally (e.g. Denmark, Finland, Sweden, U.K., Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica and South Africa) and serves as a visiting professor at the Pop Akademie in Germany. His publications include Popular Music & Society, Rock Music Studies, the Journal on the Art of Record Production, the award-winning Grove Dictionary of American Music, Popular Music History, Ethnomusicology Forum, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Social and Economic Studies, Small Axe, Billboard magazine, and in the SAGE Business Case Series in Music Marketing issued online. His book chapter contributions appear in "Rihanna: Barbados World-Gurl in Global Popular Culture" (2015), "Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: An Overview" (2009), "Globalization, Diaspora & Caribbean Popular Culture" (2005), "Bob Marley: The Man & His Music" (2003), and "Culture and Mass Communication in the Caribbean" (2001). Dr. Alleyne contributed track notes to the groundbreaking nine-CD box set, the "Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap" (2020).