Jon Burlingame is the nation's leading writer on the subject of music for films and television. He writes regularly for Variety and, over the past 35 years, has written on the topic for such leading newspapers as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post; and magazines including Premiere, Emmy and The Hollywood Reporter. He is the author of six books: the newly released "Music for Prime Time," a history of TV themes and scoring (Oxford University Press, 2023); the best-selling "The Music of James Bond" (Oxford University Press, 2012); "Music by John Barry"(Windmill Books, 2022, with Geoff Leonard and Pete Walker); the film-composer encyclopedia "Sound and Vision: 60 Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks" (Billboard Books, 2000); an earlier TV-music history "TV's Biggest Hits" (Schirmer Books, 1996); and the Hollywood studio-musician chronicle "For the Record" (Recording Musicians Association, 1997). Burlingame has twice won ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award for outstanding music journalism: most recently for his essay on the music of "Midnight Cowboy," in the 2020 soundtrack album; and in 2013 for "The Music of James Bond." He has also been recognized with BMI's Special Citation of Appreciation "for being a sincere and respected champion to so many in the film and television community." He teaches film-music history at the University of Southern California and is currently is the host of the "For Scores" podcast on film and TV music. He wrote the five-part series on movie music, "The Score," produced by the legendary Phil Ramone for the Trio cable network; and has written, produced and hosted a series of radio specials on great film composers for Classical KUSC in Los Angeles. Burlingame began his career as a reporter and critic for daily newspapers in upstate New York. He moved in 1986 to Los Angeles, where he now lives with his wife, producer and music historian Marilee Bradford. Visit his website at www.jonburlingame.com.
