Carrie Allen Tipton writes, lectures, and teaches about music, religion, history, and culture, especially of the U.S. South. Her writing has appeared in ESPN's The Undefeated, History Today, Pop Matters, Deep South Magazine, the Southern Foodways Alliance blog, W.W. Norton's Avid Listener, Religion Dispatches, the New Encyclopedia of the South, Black Music Research Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and more. She teaches music and sports at Vanderbilt University and recently published a book about the history of Southeastern Conference fight songs, From Dixie to Rocky Top.
Tipton has lectured at and/or appeared on panels for the Tennessee State Museum, Country Music Hall of Fame, Bach Society Houston, Houston Ebony Opera Guild, Early Music Nashville, Nashville's WriterFest, National Museum of African American Music, and other organizations. She has presented her research at the Southern Historical Association, Robert Penn Warren Center (Vanderbilt University), Center for Popular Music (Middle Tennessee State University), the Tennessee Historical Society, Southern American Studies Association, Society for American Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, and NYU's Music and Film Conference. While researching Black gospel music in Georgia, she facilitated the donation of the Parade of Quartets television collection to the University of Georgia Media Archives. Containing hundreds of hours of rare historic footage of Black gospel music from the southeastern U.S., the collection is available online thanks to a recent Digital Library of Georgia grant.
For six seasons, Tipton hosted the Notes on Bach podcast for Bach Society Houston and coordinates the Tiny Bach Concert video series for the American Bach Society, where she serves on the Editorial Board. In Texas, Tipton was Asst. Prof. of Musicology in the University of Houston system, directed the Bach Society Houston Lecture Series, and taught piano at a large studio where her students were finalists in the Houston Forum Young Artists Competition and performed at the Houston Children's Festival and the Houston Symphony Orchestra Jones Hall Spotlight Series. A longtime church musician and collaborative pianist, Tipton holds a PhD in Musicology/Ethnomusicology and degrees in Music Education and Piano Performance (Collaborative Piano).
Tipton has lectured at and/or appeared on panels for the Tennessee State Museum, Country Music Hall of Fame, Bach Society Houston, Houston Ebony Opera Guild, Early Music Nashville, Nashville's WriterFest, National Museum of African American Music, and other organizations. She has presented her research at the Southern Historical Association, Robert Penn Warren Center (Vanderbilt University), Center for Popular Music (Middle Tennessee State University), the Tennessee Historical Society, Southern American Studies Association, Society for American Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, and NYU's Music and Film Conference. While researching Black gospel music in Georgia, she facilitated the donation of the Parade of Quartets television collection to the University of Georgia Media Archives. Containing hundreds of hours of rare historic footage of Black gospel music from the southeastern U.S., the collection is available online thanks to a recent Digital Library of Georgia grant.
For six seasons, Tipton hosted the Notes on Bach podcast for Bach Society Houston and coordinates the Tiny Bach Concert video series for the American Bach Society, where she serves on the Editorial Board. In Texas, Tipton was Asst. Prof. of Musicology in the University of Houston system, directed the Bach Society Houston Lecture Series, and taught piano at a large studio where her students were finalists in the Houston Forum Young Artists Competition and performed at the Houston Children's Festival and the Houston Symphony Orchestra Jones Hall Spotlight Series. A longtime church musician and collaborative pianist, Tipton holds a PhD in Musicology/Ethnomusicology and degrees in Music Education and Piano Performance (Collaborative Piano).