Contributors’ Notes

Paul Ballam-Cross is a writer, composer, and classical guitarist. He has completed BA in music performance, majoring guitar, Ph.D. musicology. regular reviewer for Limelight Magazine Australia casual lecturer at the University of Queensland. His research interests include exploring transcriptions guitar methods used creating them, as well multitude intersections between popular internet.Nomi Dave an interdisciplinary researcher on voice, violence, law, with geographical focus francophone West Africa. She author The Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics, Pleasure Guinea (2019, Chicago Press), which won Society Ethnomusicology’s Ruth Stone Prize best first book. previously worked human rights lawyer United Nations refugee agency currently associate professor Virginia.Steacy Easton writer artist who grew up Edmonton, Saskatchewan, Canada, now living Hamilton, Ontario. They write often about working-class culture, family, money religion.Judith Fathallah post-doctoral Solent Southampton, U.K. Her lie areas digital cultures, fan studies, convergence media industries users, user-generated content, culture. Fanfiction Author: How Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam Press 2017) Emo: Fans Defined Subculture (Iowa 2020).Emily Margot Gale studies College Cork, Ireland. Sentimental Songs People—her book progress—explores sentimentalism, gender, class, race chapters nineteenth-century sentimental ballads; National Barn Dance, early radio program; Mitch Miller’s 1960s television show Sing Along Mitch; 1970s soft rock. hosts her Threads*/sub_ʇxǝʇ feminist column History Witch appears Berlin’s Schmutz zine. Ottawa, 2005 MA theory from Western Ontario 2007. After year inaugural class Western’s culture (2007-08), she entered Virginia’s Critical Comparative Studies program, earning 2014.Jelena Gligorijević scholar strong international academic record (spanning Serbia, Britain, Finland), multiple (from festivals to queer karaoke). primary area expertise issues identity, power, politics Balkan across former Yugoslav region. This also applies doctoral dissertation, Contemporary Music Festivals Micronational Spaces: Articulations Identity Serbia’s Exit Guča Trumpet (2019), studied national identity post-Milošević Serbia using country’s two major case studies. affiliated Fribourg, Switzerland, where doing smaller-scale ethnographic cultural political meaning-making surrounding St. Gallen’s alternative venue “Palace.“Paula Clare Harper received historical musicology Columbia holds appointment postdoctoral fellow Washington Louis. focuses music, sound, internet, work been published journals Society, Soundtrack, Sound Studies, Summer 2020 special issue American served co-editor. Currently, Dr. project titled Viral Musicking Rise Noisy Platforms.Morgan Luker Reed Portland, Oregon. An ethnomusicologist, Luker’s scholarly Latin music. Tango Machine: Musical Culture Age Expediency (University Press) founding director Musicians (www.reed.edu/tango). current examines materiality management sound recordings objects knowledge Argentina.Kimberly Mack English UCLA, assistant African literature Toledo. Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention Bessie Smith Jack White, autobiographical self-fashioning contemporary blues fiction Massachusetts Press, 2020). Mack’s second book, Untold Early Rock Criticism, Black, Indigenous, People Color, white women, helped develop rock journalism during 1970s, under contract Bloomsbury Academic. critic contributed publications, including Connection, Relix, No Depression, PopMatters, Hot Press.Sara Marcus Notre Dame editor Journal Studies. Girls Front, critical history 1990s punk-feminist movement Riot Grrrl. essays criticism literature, art have appeared Literature, Artforum, Bookforum, Los Angeles Times, New Republic, Texte zur Kunst, among other places. completing disappointment twentieth-century U.S. culture.John Morgan O’Connell Irish ethnomusicologist specialist interest history. Currently ethnomusicology Cardiff University, U.K., he taught Otago NZ, Limerick, Ireland, others. publications concern principle related conflict (Illinois, 2010), aesthetics Turkey (Routledge, 2013), commemoration WW1 (Rowman Littlefield, 2017). working edited collection that concerns staged folklore Ireland (Cork, contract).Shana L. Redmond public-facing Anthem: Social Movements Solidarity (NYU 2014) Everything Man: Form Function Robeson (Duke In 2019 liner notes vinyl soundtrack release Jordan Peele’s film Us (2019). musicology, global jazz “… California, Angeles.”Alex Assimilate: A Industrial forthcoming volume Laurie Anderson co-author 33 1/3 Might Be Giants’ Flood. Slate, Interface, many journals. Prior his position integrative Ithaca College, NYU, Florida, William & Mary. pop musician, MTV Gossip Girl.Paul Rekret books: Down With Childhood: Pop Crisis Innocence (Repeater 2017), Derrida Foucault: Philosophy, Polemics 2018), along articles such Theory, South Atlantic Quarterly. part Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective, writes ecological crisis Amplification//Annihilation, writing solicitations “work” editing new edition George Caffentzis’s Clipped Coins. teaches Richmond International London.Marlen Ríos-Hernández 2019-2021 UC president’s Department Chicana/o Central Angeles. dissertation “We Were There”: From Alice Bag Emos War Punk Other Décadas Podridas full-length hemispheric comparative study Chicana Latina participants Angeles/Southern California punk scenes 1977 2001, respectively. policing SoCal “Post”-COINTELPRO.Ruth E. Rosenberg Illinois Chicago. Travel, Imperial Encounter Nineteenth-Century France: Apprehensions (Routledge Ethnomusicology, 2014), narratives musical encounter found Romantic travel proto-ethnomusicologists French empire. addition ongoing imaginary long nineteenth century, conducts debates over tuning standards 432 Hz phenomenon.Jon Stratton adjunct UniSA Creative Australia. widely Jewish Australian multiculturalism. most recent books, coedited Jon Dale Tony Mitchell, are Anthology Albums: Engagements (Bloomsbury, 2020), Multiculturalism, Whiteness Otherness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).Maya Angela Washington. scholarship primarily intersection racial linguistic formations marginalized groups diaspora, seen works Senegal Abroad. project, Reclaiming Venus: Many Lives Alvenia Bridges, interviews Bridges serendipitous life story, behind-the-scenes role industry. storytelling sheds light social aspects entertainment industry, particularly racialized gendered experiences those participate fashion.Karen Tongson Why Karen Carpenter Matters (2020), Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). 2019, Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Award Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction body work. chair gender sexuality English, ethnicity USC. co-editor award-winning series, Postmillennial Henry Jenkins NYU co-host executive producer podcast Waiting X-Hale Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh.Eric Weisbard co-edits Alabama. He’s Songbooks: Literature out spring 2021, Top 40 Democracy: Rival Mainstreams Music. longtime organizer Conference, co-organized weekly Books Process Series, collaboration JPMS, IASPM-US, Covid shutdown.Simon Zagorski-Thomas London London) founder 21st Century Practice network more than 250 members 30 countries. was co-founder Art Record Production conference, its fifteenth year, and, until 2017, co-chair Association Study Production. 25 years engineer is, present, conducting into Practice. books Production, co-edited Simon Frith, Musicology (winner 2015 IASPM Book Prize), creative practice (edited Katia Isakoff, Serrge Lacasse Sophie Stévance) Handbook Andrew Bourbon). CUP Elements series monograph practical Academic Press.