Sumanth Gopinath is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Minnesota and the author of The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form (2013). His writings on Steve Reich, musical minimalism, Marxism, academic politics, ringtones, Bob Dylan, and Benjamin Britten have appeared in scholarly journals including Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of the Society for American Music, and First Monday, and in the edited collections Sound Commitments, Highway 61 Revisited, and Music and Narrative since 1900.

Jason Stanyek is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Oxford, where he is also Fellow and Tutor in Music at St John's College. His writings on Brazilian music, improvisation, music technology, and jazz have appeared in a range of academic journals and edited collections. Forthcoming books include a monograph on music and dance in the Brazilian diaspora and a volume (co-edited with Frederick Moehn) titled Brazil's Northern Wave: Fifty Years of Bossa Nova in the United States.

Jayson Beaster-Jones is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Merced
Arild Bergh is a researcher at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment.
Maia Bergh is a junior designer at MC2 Manchester.
Tyler Bickford is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Bill Bahng Boyer is Lecturer in music, writing and rhetoric at Dartmouth College.
Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex.
Patrick Burkart is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University.
Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.
J. Martin Daughtry is Associate Professor of Music at New York Unviersity.
Tia DeNora is Professor of Sociology of Music and Director of Research, Sociology/Philosophy at the University of Exeter.
Kariann Goldschmitt is Assistant Professor of Music at Wellesley College.
Sumanth Gopinath is Associate Professor of music theory at the University of Minnesota.
Heather A. Horst is Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Noriko Manabe is Associate Professor of Music Studies at Temple University.
Katie M. Lever-Mazzuto is Professor of Communication at Western Connecticut State University.
David McCarthy is a member of the music faculty at Nazareth College.
Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at the Steinhardt School, New York University.
Mark Nye is a photographer and IT professional.
Jan M. Padios is Assistant Professor of American studies at the University of Maryland.
Marc Perlman is Associate Professor of Music at Brown University.
Sindhumathi Revuluri is Associate Professor of Music at Harvard University.
Martin Scherzinger is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at the Steinhardt School, New York University.
Joseph Schloss is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Black and Latino Studies and Sociology at Baruch College, CUNY.
Anna Schultz is Assiociate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Stanford University.
Jason Stanyek is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Oxford.
Jonathan Sterne is Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology at McGill University.
Tim Wall is Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies at Birmingham City University.
Nick Webber is Associate Director of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University.
Christopher Joseph Westgate is Associate Professor of English at Johnson & Wales University.

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