Contributors’ Notes

Nili Belkind is a Research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special focus on Palestine/Israel—and the Caribbean. Nili’s award winning book (ICTM 2022) Music in Conflict: Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Aesthetic Production (Routledge 2021) studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in the shadow of conflict and occupation in Palestine-Israel. She has published articles or book chapters on topics such as music and: urban regeneration (2019); the construction of diasporic imaginations (2016); cultural intimacy across ethnonational conflict (2021); social movements (2013); cultural diplomacy (2010 and 2021); Orientalism (upcoming 2024). Prior to her academic career Nii has spend many years in the (world) music industry working as an album producer, label manager, product manager, booker and more. Two albums she has co-produced (with the Puerto Rican band Plna Libre) were nominated for a Grammy.Isabella Fincher is a first-year master’s student studying classical guitar performance at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts. She graduated summa cum laude with bachelor of arts in journalism and bachelor of music in classical guitar performance from the University of Colorado Boulder. She was selected for the CU Boulder College of Media, Communication and Information’s William W. White Outstanding Graduate and the College of Music’s Outstanding Graduating Senior Awards. Her primary instructors include Rene Izquierdo and Adam Holzman. She has performed in masterclasses for world-class guitarists, including Solo Duo, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Zoran Dukíc, and Gabriel Bianco, and studied with Sharon Isbin at the prestigious Aspen Music Festival.Ofer Gazit is a lecturer in ethnomusicology at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He teaches and writes about issues of migration, borders, and citizenship in the US and the Caribbean from a musical perspective. He has contributed articles and chapters to publications in sound and media studies, ethnomusicology, and jazz studies. His book Jazz Migrations is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.Alexander Hardan is a PhD candidate in Musicology & Ethnomusicology at Brown University, where he works on Soviet musical pedagogy and performance as an instrument of “Sovietization” in Cuba during the Cold War. Specifically, Hardan focuses on discourses of the “Russian Sound” and choreographies of virtuosity produced in Soviet Cuba, and the subsequent effects of this musical Sovietization on the Cuban state’s ideal revolutionary subject. Outside of the Cold War, he is also interested in performance studies and queer theory, namely the ways in which normative ideas of gender have conditioned ideas of virtuosic performance. His work is forthcoming in the Journal of Musicology and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. In 2023 Hardan was awarded the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship by the American Musicological Society. He holds a B.M. in Violin Performance and M.M. degrees in both Violin Performance and Musicology from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, as well as an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from Brown University.Anthony Kwame Harrison is the Edward S. Diggs Professor in Humanities and Professor of Sociology, with a joint appointment in Africana Studies, at Virginia Tech. Kwame is author of Hip Hop Underground (Temple University Press, 2009).Anelise Haukaas is an Instructor at Laramie County Community College. She holds a PhD in English and the Teaching of English from Idaho State University, in addition to an MA, a BA, and a Graduate Certificate from George Mason University, where she studied literature and folklore. Her research interests include genre fiction, disability studies, and new media, and their first academic book Disability in Simulation Narratives is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.Jasmine A. Henry is an assistant professor of musicology and Wolf Humanities Center fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include Black electronic dance music, independent music production, and Afrofuturism. Her current book project focuses on the history of Black urban club music and party cultures in Newark, New Jersey. As a live sound engineer, she has entertained international audiences through her work on critically acclaimed productions such as the Blue Man Group, HBO’s The Newsroom, and Broadway’s Chicago the Musical. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the Media Lab Director at the Newark School of the Arts, where she provided youth from historically marginalized backgrounds with access to music technologies and industry knowledge.L. Holland is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol. Their research looks at queerness in pop music, with their PhD thesis looking at the construction of queer alter egos, including analyses of David Bowie, Prince, and Janelle Monáe. They have taught classes on hip-hop and on gender studies, been an archival intern at The ArQuives, Toronto, worked for the queer youth support group Freedom Bristol, and been research assistant on projects ranging from The Streets to Leonard Bernstein.Arthur Knight teaches Film & Media Studies, American Studies, and English at William & Mary. His research focuses on African Americans and American films, and his publications include Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film (Duke 2002) and the edited collection (with Pamela Wojcik) Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film & Popular Culture (Duke 2001).Pyar Seth is a Visiting Research Scholar at King’s College London and a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University pursuing a dual degree in Anthropology and Political Science. Broadly, he studies Black Atlantic Thought, policing and medicalization, and the epistemic organization of health, disease, and risk. His dissertation is entitled, The Spectral Defect: Death, Diagnosis, and Determinism Across the Atlantic World; it is an intellectual history of medical diagnoses that have been used to ‘explain away’ racialized fatalities that occur in state custody. Pyar is also a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar and a Graduate Research Associate to the Black Beyond Data Project. His other scholarly inquiries examine insurance and the slave trade, rest and the moral imagination, and music and the medical humanities.Emmalouise St. Amand is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the Eastman School of Music. Her research explores issues of embodiment and voice in Black girls’ singing groups of the 1950s and 1960s.Andy Kelleher Stuhl is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University. His dissertation is a history of automation and artistic response in American broadcast radio between 1950 and 2010. His research aims to surface historical continuities behind phenomena in auditory media, such as automated distribution, that often appear as 21st-century novelties – and to recover earlier work by radio artists as critical precedents for new media experimenters.John D. Vandevert is a doctoral candidate at Uppsala University studying 1990s rap in Russia and the construction of national identity and aesthetic embodiments of “Russianness.” His master’s thesis was the first in the burgeoning field of Russian rap studies to explore the connections between the musical aesthetics of “Russianness” defined by the “Balakirev Circle” and the contemporary aesthetics of rap in Russia. He has also written for outlets such as Riddle, io, Russia Post, and The Conversation regarding the censorship of rap in Russia and its impact on rap culture in the country. Outside of academic work, he works as a contributing writer for the online publication OperaWire, focusing on the convergence of opera and cinema.

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