Jeff Todd Titon (born 1943) is a professor emeritus of music at Brown University.
His published books include Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis (University of Illinois Press, 1977; 2nd edition, University of North Carolina Press, 1994), Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church (University of Texas Press, 1988; 2nd ed.
He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, 2015) and general editor of Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples (Cengage/Schirmer Books, 6th ed., 2016).
In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the American Folklore Society, and in 2020, he received their Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.
[4] Titon is known for developing collaborative ethnographic research based on reciprocity and friendship,[5] for helping to establish an applied ethnomusicology based in social responsibility,[6] for proposing that music cultures can be understood as ecosystems,[7] for introducing the concepts of musical and cultural sustainability,[8] and for his appeal for a sound commons for all living creatures and his current ecomusicological project of a sound ecology.