Contributors’ Notes

Morgan Bimm is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at St. Francis Xavier University. Her research focuses on integrating fan studies, popular music studies, and feminist theory, particularly as they relate to the consumption and framing of popular culture, music, and aesthetics. Broadly, her work is interested in the ways that technology and media work together to produce ideas about cultural relevance and gender. Morgan’s academic writing has appeared in Punk & Post-Punk, Flow, MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, as well as a number of scholarly anthologies. She also serves as co-chair for the Gender and Feminisms Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).Anjuli Joshi Brekke is Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of the Digital Media and Audio Production program at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Her scholarship focuses on the potential and politics of listening and interweaves research from several traditions including rhetorical studies, cultural studies, and sound studies.Christine Capetola is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. They work at the intersections of queer, Black, sound, affect, and performance studies. Their book project, Sonic Femmeness: Black Culture Makers, Felt History, and Vibrational Identity, theorizes that femmeness is a sonic, felt, and vibrational configuration of femininity that connects Black pop stars from the 1980s and 2010s across shared aesthetics and historical resonances. They are published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Los Angeles Review of Books, AMP: American Music Perspectives, Oxford Handbook for Electronic Dance Music, Routledge Companion on Cyberpunk, and Bitch Mediaand have work forthcoming in Women & Performance. Capetola guest edited “Sound and Affect in Times of Crisis,” a special issue of AMP: American Music Perspectives, with Dan DiPiero. They publish essays about contemporary pop/r&b and emotionality at www.christinecapetola.com.Norma Coates is an Associate Professor who holds a joint appointment in the Don Wright Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. Her research, cited internationally, focuses on two areas: popular music and identity, particularly gender, age, and the intersection of both; and popular music on US network television before MTV. Coates is Past President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch.Stacey Copeland is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Groningen. She is also a Co-Director of Amplify Podcast Network, a scholarly podcasting initiative. Copeland’s work on sound, media and culture has been published in top-ranking journals including Radio Journal and the Canadian Journal of Communication. She has also published in various edited collections, co-published open-access guides on academic podcasting and soundscape assessment, and actively works to produce publicly accessible sonic scholarship that bridges research and creative practice. Current research focus includes media production and podcast industries, cultural sound studies, feminist media history, gender and sexuality, and phenomenology of sound.Adrian De Leon is a writer and public historian at the University of Southern California, where he is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity. He is the author of Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). His next book, Balikbayan: The Invention of the Filipino Homeland, is under contract with the University of Washington Press.Kate Galloway is Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her in-progress monograph Remix, Reuse, Recycle: Music, Media Technologies, and Remediating the Environment examines how and why contemporary artists remix and recycle sounds, music, and texts encoded with environmental knowledge. She has co-edited two special journal issues (American Music and Twentieth-Century Music) with K. E. Goldschmitt and Paula Harper that address the creative and social phenomena of internet music communities and practices of listening to the internet and edited a special issue on “Listening to/with Game Worlds” for Music and the Moving Image. With Paula Harper and Steven Gamble she co-organized the in-person/virtual Music and the Internet Conference (2023) and with Harper and Christa Bentley she is co-organizer of the Taylor Swift Study Day (2021). With Harper and Bentley, she is co-editing the forthcoming collection Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans.Lauron Kehrer is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology in the Irving S. Gilmore School of Music at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where they teach courses in popular music, global music cultures, and western art music. Their research focuses on the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in American popular music, especially hip hop. They have published articles in American Music, the Journal of the Society for American Music, Popular Music and Society, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. Their first book, Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance (University of Michigan Press 2022) examines the work of Black queer and trans artists in hip hop. They are currently co-editing a volume with Stephanie Jensen-Moulton called “Better Be Good to Me”: American Popular Songs as Domestic Violence Narratives (under contract with University of Michigan Press).Sean Latham is the Pauline McFarlin Walter Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa where he serves as director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Bob Dylan studies. He is the author of editor of ten book on modern literature and culture including Am I a Snob?, The Art of Scandal, and The World of Bob Dylan.Corey J. Miles is assistant professor of sociology and Africana studies at Tulane University. He is the author of Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South (University Press of Mississippi). His work has been published in the Journal of Hip-Hop Studies, Cultural Studies, and the Howard Journal of Communication.Amy Skjerseth is Lecturer in Audiovisual Media and co-director of the Music and Audiovisual Media MA program at the University of Liverpool. Her monograph-in-progress, Audiovisual Thinking: Visual Waves of Popular Music, explores how technologies including 1960s transistor radios, 1990s Auto-Tune, and present-day vocaloids and deepfakes have influenced both musical and visual culture. She is also at work on her second book, The Feminist Wall of Sound. Her work has appeared in Spectator, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, Film Criticism, animation: an interdisciplinary journal, The Radio Journal, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, and Journal of Popular Music Studies.Alyx Vesey is an assistant professor in Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. Her research focuses on the gendered dynamics of creative labor in the music industries. She is the author of Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press, 2024). Her work has also appeared Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Television and New Media, Camera Obscura, Velvet Light Trap, and Journal of Popular Music Studies, where she also serves as the publication’s book reviews editor.Langston Collin Wilkins is Assistant Professor of Folklore and African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Everybody Inherits the Hood: Place, Identity and Hip Hop Heritage in Houston (University of Illinois Press, 2023), which explores the relationship between music creation, place attachment and local heritage within Houston, Texas’ hip hop music scene. His work has also appeared in the Journal of Folklore Research, The Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, and several other publications. From 2019-2022, Dr. Wilkins served as the Director of the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions, a public program that seeks to document and preserve the traditional culture of Washington State. Dr. Wilkins is currently an executive board member of the American Folklore Society.

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