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Steven Rings is Associate Professor in the Department of Music. His wide-ranging research incorporates transformational theory, phenomenology, popular music, and voice. He is the author of Tonality and Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2011), which received the Society for Music Theory’s 2012 Emerging Scholar Award, and his current book project explores Bob Dylan’s fifty-year performing career.