Emily Ruth Allen (she/her) holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Florida State University. Allen is a podcast host for the New Books Network and she is also working on a book manuscript about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival.
Samuel Breene holds an A.M. in Performance Practice and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Duke University and is currently Professor of Music History at Rhode Island College, where he also directs the Early Music Ensemble. He has broad research interests in eighteenth-century music and he appears as a baroque violinist with Early Music Missouri, the Hope Collective for Early Music, Musicke’s Cordes, and the Providence Baroque Orchestra.
Mark Duffett is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Chester. He completed his PhD on the fans of Elvis Presley in 1998 and remains interested in popular music, fan culture, and cultural theory. He has written numerous articles and book chapters, edited several projects, and authored three monographs: Understanding Fandom (2013), Counting Down Elvis (2018), and Elvis (2020).
Brooke McCorkle Okazaki is an Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She specializes in opera of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, film music, and the music of modern Japan. In addition to numerous articles, McCorkle Okazaki is the coauthor of Japan’s Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaijū Cinema (2018) and the author of Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll (2021). In the 2019–2020 academic year, she received a Japan Foundation Fellowship to complete her monograph Searching for Wagner in Japan.
Charissa Noble is a musicologist and vocalist specializing in experimental vocal techniques. Her interdisciplinary research encompasses twentieth-century California modern art and music, experimental vocal practice and critical voice studies, early twentieth-century electronic music, performance art, and cultural geography. Her work on the Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble of UCSD has been recently featured in The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, and her work has appeared in Sound American as well as several special journal editions published by UCLA, USC, and SUNY Buffalo. In addition to her scholarly work, Charissa is deeply committed to the advancement of the arts scene in San Diego: she has curated didactic materials as an exhibition scholar for San Diego Art Institute’s The Shape of Things (2018), given invited special lectures at the Atheneum Music and Arts Library and with Art of Élan, and she currently serves as Executive Director of San Diego New Music and as co-director of the experimental vocal ensemble San Diego New Verbal Workshop (SdNVW).