Notes on Contributing Authors

Jessica Swanston Baker is a daughter of the Leeward Island Archipelago who works as an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. Her first book, Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis (University of Chicago Press, 2024), traces the sonic history of wylers, an up-tempo style of popular music from St. Kitts and Nevis that surged in popularity in the late 1990s. When she is not teaching, writing, or researching, she finds joy in all kinds of singing, mosaic crochet, and improvisational cooking.Corinna Campbell is an Associate Professor of music at Williams College. Her research among the Suriname Maroons addresses themes including music/dance interconnections, Surinamese cultural nationalism, culture-representational and folkloric performance, and musical engagements with current issues such as gold mining and land rights. She is author of The Cultural Work: Maroon Performance in Paramaribo, Suriname (2020).J. Martin Daughtry is an associate professor of music and sound studies at New York University. His writing and teaching deal with acoustic violence; more-than-human vocality; the auditory imagination; the dynamics of listening and non-listening; the end of the world; air; and jazz. His first monograph, Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq (Oxford 2015) received a PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers, and the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. His current book project is titled Panvocalism: Atmospheric Transcripts from the End of the World.Tomie Hahn is an artist and ethnomusicologist. Her research and creative work span a range of area topics including Japanese / Japanese American performance, Monster Truck rallies, transmission, the senses, embodiment, dance, multiracial expressivity, and contemplative practices. Her scholarly and creative work is cited as contributing to the “sensory turn”, specifically her monograph Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance (Wesleyan University Press) and Arousing Sense: Recipes for Workshopping Sensory Experience (University of Illinois Press). She is Professor Emerita at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Loab Hammoud is an ethnomusicologist and a Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Music Research at the University of Würzburg, where he researches identity formation in musical performances and the role of music in the lives of Syrian musicians, as they adapt and reconstruct their homes in Germany. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Haifa. He received his PhD at the University of Haifa's Department of Music, where he completed his dissertation, “From Mandate Era Palestine to the Diaspora and Back: The Lives and Musics of Palestinian Composers of Arab Art Music.” He plays and teaches the oud, as well as Arab music theory. His previous research focused on the history of Palestinian Arab art music and Arab music education and performance among Israeli Jews.Damascus Kafumbe is the Edward C. Knox Professor of International Studies and Professor of Music at Middlebury College, where he teaches ethnomusicology and directs two ensembles. He also chairs the music department and maintains its Ugandan musical instrument collection. Kafumbe recently served as board member and secretary of the Society for Ethnomusicology as well as editorial board member of the Society's journal, Ethnomusicology. He is the music book review editor of Traditions of Music and Dance, the journal of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, and editor of the Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology Series of the University of Rochester Press.M. Myrta Leslie Santana is an ethnomusicologist and performer whose work examines the social and political significance of trans and queer performance in the Americas. She is the author of Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba (Michigan, 2025), an ethnography of drag performance in contemporary Cuba. Other writing has appeared in Small Axe, the Journal of the Society for American Music, Queer Nightlife (Michigan), and Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology (Oxford). Originally from Miami, Florida, Leslie Santana is currently Assistant Professor of Music at UC San Diego.Giordano Marmone is an ethnomusicologist and anthropologist. His research focuses on the role of musical practices in the construction of institutions and power relations among East African pastoral nomadic populations. He recently undertook a long-term study of the use of mobile phones in rural northern Kenya for the development of new forms of political action through music file sharing. He has taught ethnomusicology at the University of Paris Nanterre in the Department of Anthropology. He has served as the Fyssen Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) at the University of Michigan and the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC) at the Free University of Brussels. He is a faculty member at the Université de Strasbourg, Institut d'ethnologie, Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en études culturellesYun Emily Wang is Assistant Professor of Music at Duke University, where she also holds a secondary appointment in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Emily's current book project is about the many very queer ways Sinophone immigrants aurally navigate irreconcilably different notions of belonging, of living, and of dreams under Canadian multiculturalism. They often think with sound studies, Asian American studies, and queer theory, and tries to incorporate karaoke into every class. Emily has published in Women and Music, Resonance, MusiCULTURE, and American Music and holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Toronto.

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