Josh Kun is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Popular Music Project of the Norman Lear Center. He is the author or editor of several books, including Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, and his writings on music and culture have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the American Prospect, Los Angeles Magazine, and many other publications. As a curator and consultant, he has worked with the Getty Foundation, the Grammy Museum, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Autry Museum, the Skirball Cultural Center, and others.