Nina Sun Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology and Special Assistant to Dean, the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles. She has previously authored Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (2015) and The Sound of Race: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (2019).

Katherine Meizel is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her book Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol was published in 2011, and she wrote on American Idol for Slate from 2007 to 2011.

Santanu Bandyopadhyay, Singer and teacher, Hindustani tradition (Bishnupur gharana)

Robert O. Beahrs, Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM), Istanbul Technical University

Juliette Bellocq , Graphic Designer

April L. Brown, Professor of History, NorthWest Arkansas Community College

Gregory A. Bryant, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Communication, University of California, Los Angeles

Shane Butler, Professor and Chair of Classics, Johns Hopkins University

Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University Institute of Sacred Music

Nina Sun Eidsheim, Professor of Musicology, The Herb Alpert School of Music, The University of California, Los Angeles

Cornelia Fales, Research Associate, Indiana University

Jennifer Fleeger, Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies and Coordinator of Film Studies, Ursinus College

Jessica Fleischmann, Graphic designer

Mary J. Hawkshaw, Research Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine

Jake Johnson, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Oklahoma City University

Alisha Lola Jones, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University

Alexander K. Khalil, Assistant Project Scientist at the Institute for Neural Computation at University of California, San Diego

Jody Kreiman, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Linguistics. University of California, Los Angeles

Elias Krell, César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Dartmouth College

Tom McEnaney, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley

Eve McPherson, Associate Professor of Music, Kent State University at Trumbull

Katherine Meizel, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Bowling Green State University

Yoko Ono, Singer, composer, multimedia artist, filmmaker, and activist

Katarzyna Pisanski, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Nandhakumar Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Lamar University

Matt Rahaim, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Minnesota

Shanara R. Reid-Brinkley, Visiting Scholar in the Humanities and former Director of Debate for the William Pitt Debate Union, University of Pittsburgh

Robert T. Sataloff , Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and Senior Associate Dean for clinical academic specialties at Drexel University College of Medicine; He is also on the faculties of Temple University, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Thomas Jefferson University.

Ronald C. Scherer, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Bowling Green State University

Jessica A. Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles

Rosario Signorello, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3

Dan Wang, Assistant Professor in Musicology, University of Pittsburg

Miriama Young, Scholar, composer, and sound artist based at The University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (VCA & MCM).

"...the value of this collection is incontestable. Curating a dialogue between apparently irreconcilable perspectives, Eidsheim and Meizel show how much is to be gained from interacting across and beyond boundaries." -- Juliana M. Pistorius, Transposition