- Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Indiana University

Tyron Cooper
Associate Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Director, Archives of African American Music and Culture
Associate Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Director, Archives of African American Music and Culture
Dr. Tyron Cooper is a four-time Emmy award winner and Director of Indiana University’s (IU) Archives of African American Music and Culture. He is also an associate professor in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, and adjunct faculty in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at IU. Along with his teaching and research in African American music, Cooper is recognized for his extensive studio recording and live performance experience as music director, guitarist, vocalist, composer and arranger for national artists such as A Taste of Honey, Max Roach, Bo Diddley, Dionne Warwick, Felton Pilate, Marietta Simpson, Angela Brown, The Soulful Symphony, Donnie McClurkin, Jason Nelson, Lamar Campbell, Bishop Leonard Scott, Kathy Taylor, and Walt Whitman and The Soul Children to name a few. As composer, he has garnered four Emmys, one Telly and several Emmy nominations for his music in PBS documentaries such as Strange Fruit: The Salt Project (2014), Bobby ‘Slick’ Leonard: Heart of a Hoosier (2014), Attucks: The School That Opened a City (2017), The Music Makers of Gennett Records (2018), Eva A-7063 (2018) and Ernie Pyle: Life in the Trenches (2020).