Dr. Rusty Jones, Associate Professor
Dr. Jones's Personal Jukebox
Dr. Jones is both a music scholar and an
active performer. He holds a Ph. D. in music theory from Indiana
University (2004) and a M.M. in music theory from the University of
Texas at Austin (1996). He was promoted to the rank of Associate
Professor of Music Theory in 2012, four years after beginning as an
Assistant Professor at Butler in Fall 2008. He previously was
employed as an Assistant Professor at the University of
Missouri-Columbia. In October 2009, he presented his research at
the Society for Music Theory national conference in Montreal. He
has publications in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy,
Indiana Theory Review and Guitar Review and has
recently written five articles for the forthcoming new edition of
the Grove Dictionary of American Music. His
music-theoretical interests include instrument-specific analyses,
the rhetoric of sonata form, and music of the Elizabethan era. Dr.
Jones is devoted to pedagogy and attended the 2007 Wakonse
conference on college teaching in Stony Lake, Michigan. He is proud
to be a member of the honor societies Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Kappa
Lambda. Dr. Jones is the faculty adviser (and honorary member) for
Butler's chapter of Tau Beta Sigma.
Dr. Jones holds a M.M. in guitar from the University of Akron
(1998). He has an extensive background in jazz and rock music and
spent a year studying and performing at the Musicians' Institute in
Hollywood, California. His new passion is bluegrass banjo, and he
is working hard at learning the instrument and its music. One of
his more unusual musical engagements was as a banjo player for the
Ohio Ballet, where he helped to accompany the troupe to shows at
the Joyce Theater in New York City in 1998 and in Cleveland and
Akron, Ohio in 1999. He currently performs in a flute/guitar duo
with his wife. Outside of the world of music, Dr. Jones enjoys
running, Bulldogs and Pacers basketball, competitive tennis, and
spending time with his two dogs. Dr. Jones is a volunteer with both
the Humane Society of Indianapolis, as well as Big Brothers/Big
Sisters of Central Indiana.
(317) 940-8806
rejones@butler.edu