Contributors
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Catherine M. Appert is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Cornell University, where she teaches courses on the music of Africa and the African diaspora, global hip hop, and ethnographic theory and methods. She is currently writing an ethnography of hip hop and diasporic memory in Senegal.
Emma Dillon is Professor of Music at King’s College London. She is a specialist in medieval French music and sound culture of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. She is author of The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260–1330 (2012).
Shana Goldin-Perschbacher is Assistant Professor of Music History at Temple University. Her ethnographic, historical, and analytical scholarship on popular music engages with feminist, queer, transgender, and critical race studies. She has published on Jeff Buckley, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Björk. This issue’s essay draws from her current book project.
Sangita Gopal is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. She is author of Conjugations: Marriage and Film Form in New Bollywood Cinema (2012) and coeditor of Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Film Music (2008) and Fourth Screen: Intermedia in Asia (2012). She is currently working on a book on gender and transmedia in South Asia.
Bonnie Gordon is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Virginia. Her research centers on the experience of sound in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. She is the author of Monteverdi’s Unruly Women (2004) and has published articles about contemporary female singer-songwriters. She coedited an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural volume of essays about courtesans entitled The Courtesan’s Arts (2006). She is working on a book entitled Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds and on a long-term project closer to home called Jefferson’s Soundscapes.
T. Austin Graham is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture (2013). His current project is a study of US historical fiction in the twentieth century.
Charles Hartman has published seven volumes of poems, including New & Selected Poems (2008). His critical books include Jazz Text: Voice and Improvisation in Poetry, Jazz, and Song (1991); Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody (1996); and Virtual [End Page 831] Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (1996). His textbook Verse: An Introduction to Prosody was published in 2015. He is Poet in Residence and Professor of English at Connecticut College.
Elizabeth Helsinger, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago, is the author of numerous studies of nineteenth-century British literature and a coeditor of Critical Inquiry. Her most recent books are Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts (2008) and Poetry and the Thought of Song (2015).
Lawrence Kramer is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, the editor of the journal 19th-Century Music, and a prize-winning composer. His many books include, most recently, The Thought of Music (2016), and the first annotated critical edition of the original version of Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps (2015). His String Quartet no. 5, “The Far Field,” premiered in New York City in 2015.
Joseph Lam is Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan and Professor of Musicology there in the School of Music, Theater, and Dance. He specializes in the music and cultures of Southern Song (1127–1275), Ming (1368–1644), and modern China (1900 to present). His most recent publications include “Music and Masculinities in Ming China” (2011) and Songdai yinyueshi lunwenji: lilun yu miaoshu (Historical Studies on Song Dynasty Music: Theories and Narratives) (2012). Currently, he is working on a monograph entitled Kunqu, the Classical Opera of Globalized China.
Eric Lott teaches American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (1993; 2013) and The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual (2006). His study of race and culture in the long twentieth century, Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of...
