Contributors’ Notes

Pierangelo Castagneto taught American History at the American University in Bulgaria. He has been an F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto, a Fulbright Scholar, and has worked at the Rockefeller Archive Center and at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. Among his publications: L’oceano dei suoni. Migrazioni, musica e razze nella formazione delle società euroatlantiche (2007); Old and New Republics: The Diplomatic Relations Between the Republic of Genoa and the US (2010); Hostilities against Malaria. The Rockefeller Foundation in Bulgaria (2013); Ambassador Dizzy: Jazz Diplomacy in the Cold War Era (2014). He is the editor of Frederick Douglass, L’età delle immagini (2020).Joshua Chambers-Letson is a professor of Performance Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and the 2019 Erroll Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research) and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America (winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award from ATHE); co-editor of José Esteban Muñoz’s The Sense of Brown with Tavia Nyong’o and of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital with Christine Moke; and series co-editor of NYU Press’s Sexual Cultures series with Tavia Nyong’o and Ann Pellegrini. JCL is currently at work on a monograph about the art of queer love and loss. They are presently the 2022-2023 Thinker in Residence with the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation.Simone Pereira de Sá is a full professor at the Fluminense Federal University, in the Media Studies course and in the graduate program in communication, where she coordinates the LabCult - Research Laboratory of Urban Cultures and Communication Technologies.Dan DiPiero is a musician, visiting assistant professor of musicology at Ithaca College, and incoming assistant professor of music studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His first book, Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2022. His second book is tentatively titled Big Feelings: Feminism and Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl.Jabari Evans is an assistant professor of race and media at the University of South Carolina in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) and visiting professor at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media within the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University's Law School. His research focuses on the digital subcultures that urban youth and young adults of color develop and inhabit to understand their social environments and identity development and to pursue their professional aspirations in creative and cultural industries. As a recording artist and musician, he has enjoyed a 20-year career in hip-hop, collaborated with multiple Grammy-award winning artists, and served on the board of governors for the Chicago chapter of The Recording Academy.Simone Evangelista is adjunct professor at the School of Social Communication and the Graduate Program in Communication at the Rio de Janeiro State University.Michael Boyce Gillespie is an associate professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. His research interests include black visual and expressive culture, film theory, visual historiography, popular music, and contemporary art. He is the author of Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film (Duke University Press, 2016) and co-editor with Lisa Uddin of Black One Shot, an art criticism series on ASAP/J. His recent writing has appeared in Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, liquid blackness, and Ends of Cinema. He was the consulting producer on The Criterion Collection releases of Deep Cover and Shaft.Juliana Freire Gutmann is a professor in the Department of Communication and in the Graduate Program in Contemporary Communication and Culture at the Federal University of Bahia and leader of the CHAOS Research Group - Audiovisual Culture, Historicities, and Sensibilities.Michele Friedner is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago.Ailsa Lipscombe is a post-doctorate research fellow in the School of Information Management, and a teaching fellow in the Department of Music, at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. She holds a Ph.D. in music from the University of Chicago, and her research draws together sound studies, ethnomusicology, and critical disability studies to amplify disabled knowledge and/or embodied forms of listening praxes.Walton Muyumba is a writer and critic. He is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and the Oxford American, among other outlets. Muyumba is an associate professor of literature at Indiana University-Bloomington.Julie Beth Napolin is an associate professor of digital humanities at The New School. Her first book, The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form (Fordham UP, 2020) was shortlisted for the Memory Studies Association First Book Award. She has published several essays on sound, music, and race in literature and media in such venues as Symploke and qui parle. She is currently writing a book on strategies of recitation and remediation in twentieth-century American culture, media, and performance.Philana Payton is an assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research centers on Black women performers, black cinema history, and black popular culture. She has published her work in Film Quarterly, Seen by Blackstar, and Film Criticism.Miriam J. Petty is an associate professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film and associate dean for academic programs in Northwestern’s Graduate School. She writes and teaches about race, genre, stardom, and performance. Her award-winning book, Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood explores the limits and possibilities of black stardom during the “golden age” of mainstream U.S. cinema. Petty’s work has appeared in Genders, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. She serves on the editorial board for the Journal for Cinema and Media Studies, and as a co-chair of SCMS’ Committee on Antiracism, Equity, and Diversity. Petty is currently at work on Madea’s Baby, Tyler’s Maybe, a monograph charting the industrial and cultural appeals of Tyler Perry’s films and plays, from 1998 to 2019.Brittnay L. Proctor is a Mellon post-doctoral fellow/assistant professor of race and media in the School of Media Studies at The New School. Her research interests include black studies; black popular music, black feminist theory, sound studies, visual culture, and performance. Her work has been published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, American Literature, Sounding Out!, Feminist Formations, Hyped on Melancholy, African American Review, Reviews in Digital Humanities, and ASAP/Journal. She is the author of Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (Bloomsbury Press: 33 1/3 Series). She is also working on a second book manuscript, which draws on LP records and Compact Discs to trace the sonic and visual discourses of gender and sexuality in funk music.Artur Szarecki is an associate professor of cultural studies at the Nicolai Copernicus University in Toruń. A critical theorist and researcher, he has written on embodiment, capitalism, and popular culture. His current work draws on post-hegemonic theory and new materialist ontologies in order to reframe how power operates within contemporary culture.Grant Wong is a Ph.D. student in history at the University of South Carolina specializing in the study of twentieth-century American pop culture and consumerism.

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