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Mark J. Butler has held the professorship in Popular Music Studies at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin since October 2021. His research focuses on contemporary, groove-based popular music. He is an expert on electronic dance music. His first book, Unlocking the Groove (Indiana University Press, 2006), developed theoretical and analytical models for rhythm and meter in electronic dance music, a repertoire that had not been previously explored from a musicological point of view. He is also the editor of an anthology entitled Electronica, Dance, and Club Music (Ashgate, 2012), which was the first published reference book on the subject. He was President of the U.S. branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music from 2015–2017.