Wayne Marshall is an American ethnomusicologist college professor at the Berklee College of Music[1][2] His scholarship focuses on the musical and cultural production of the Caribbean and the Americas, and their circulation in the wider world, with particular attention to digital technologies.
writing a book on music, networked media and transnational youth culture.
He co-edited and contributed to the book Reggaeton (Duke University Press, 2009) and has published in journals such as Popular Music and Callaloo, while writing for popular outlets including The Wire and the Boston Phoenix.
He specializes in the intersections between Caribbean and American popular music.
His dissertation, "Routes, Rap, Reggae: Hearing the Histories of Hip-hop and Reggae Together", examines the musical interplay between Jamaica and the US in the late twentieth century.