JENNIFER STOEVER is an Associate Professor at SUNY Binghamton, where she teaches courses on African American literature, sound studies, and race and gender representation in popular music. She also is the project coordinator for the Binghamton Historical Soundwalk Project, a multi-year archival, civically-engaged art project designed to challenge how Binghamton students and year-round residents hear their town, themselves, and each other. She is Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief for Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog and her book The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening was published by New York University Press in 2016.
M J GRANT is a Teaching Fellow at the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh. Her work currently focuses on the uses of music in connection with collective violence, especially in war, genocide and torture. From 2008 – 2014 she led the research group “Music, Conflict and the State” at the University of Göttingen, and from 2014 – 2015 she was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in Law as Culture at the University of Bonn. She also received a major stipend from the HF Guggenheim Foundation for a monograph on the musicology of war, which is nearing completion. Previous work includes Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory in Post-war Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and an as yet unpublished monograph on the cultural history of the song Auld Lang Syne.
ANDREW BROOKS is is a Sydney-based artist, writer, curator and organiser whose work takes the form of installations, performances, text works and sound recordings. He has performed and/or exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Japan and Australia and his writing has been published both locally and internationally. He was a co-director of Firstdraft Gallery (2015−16) and co-curator of the NOW now Festival (2012−14).
