Denise Dalphond is an independent, public sector scholar of ethnomusicology specializing in Detroit techno and house music. She writes about music and activism at schoolcraftwax.work.

Alison Martin is a PhD Student in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Her dissertation work focuses on the intersections of gentrification, race, and sound in Washington, DC.

Portia K. Maultsby is Laura Boulton Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Sheis editor with Mellonee V. Burnim of African American Music: An Introduction,and Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation.

Fernando Orejuela is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He is the author of Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture.

Stephanie Shonekan is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Black Studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Soul, Country and the USA: Race and Identity in American Music and The Life of Camilla Williams, African American Classical Singer and Opera Diva.

Langston Collin Wilkins is Traditional Arts Specialist with the Tennessee Arts Commission. He is currently writing an ethnographic manuscript on cultivation of local identity within Houston's screwed & chopped hip hop music scene.