Bio

kburke@fit.edu

Kevin R. Burke teaches courses in music theory, music literature, and world music. Since arriving at Florida Tech, he has sought new channels for music to interact with the STEM fields. Dr. Burke’s emerging research and teaching interests involve classic video game music, particularly the compositional trends and culture developing around the sound chips for 8- and 16-bit systems. He has presented research on distinct sound drivers for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Sega Genesis, and TurboGrafx 16 at meetings of the North American Conference for Video Game Music and the Ludomusicology Conference and has several forthcoming articles on this initial work. Dr. Burke remains active in the study of music pedagogy, recently serving as the Secretary-Treasurer for the American Musicological Society’s Pedagogy Study Group. An Eli Lilly education grant in 2010 allowed him to pioneer the use of iPads as tools in the music classroom and his work with instructional technology and the “Reacting to the Past” (RTTP) platform appear in Hybrid Pedagogy, Engaging Students, Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and the forthcoming Norton Guide to Teaching Music History. Dr. Burke received a Ph.D. In Musicology from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where his dissertation, "Propagating a National Genre: German Writers on German Opera, 1798-1830," received the Helen T. Ehlers award. He maintains an extensive database of German-language opera reviews from 1798-1830, which he compiled during his Fulbright Fellowship at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.