John R. Pippen is assistant professor of music at Colorado State University. His courses address sociological and anthropological studies of music, musical practices around the world, and histories of music in the United States and Europe.

Dr. Pippen’s primary research has been an ethnographic study of the new music scene in Chicago. Active in the Economic Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group of SEM, Dr. Pippen has presented his research around the world at conferences for the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), British Forum for Ethnomusicology, and the Society of American Music. He publishes extensively about music and labor with writings in Music and Politics, Twentieth Century Music, the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and in edited volumes. In 2025, he was awarded the Ann Gill Faculty Development Award from the CSU College of Liberal Arts. His book project is under contract with Clemson University Press and is currently titled The Constraints of Contemporary Classical Music: Labor and Class in American New Music Ensembles.

Degrees
Ph.D., Musicology, University of Western Ontario
M.M., Musicology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
B.M., Music Education, Tennessee Tech University