Alejandro L. Madrid is a Professor of Musicology at Cornell University. He works at the intersection of musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance studies, covering topics like neoliberalism, globalization, and postmodernity, exploring questions of embodiment, affectivity, and politics in transnational settings, most notably in Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the circum-Caribbean. Author, co-author, and editor of several books; including his last monograph In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 (Oxford University Press, 2015) that investigates the cultural complexity of Mexican composer Julián Carrilo's work and his microtonalist creations. His current projects on Cuban-American composer Tania Léon touches on issues of homophobia and masculinity, and music in Mexican and Mexican-American popular culture. Professor Madrid received many awards for his scholarship contributions, including the prestigious "Dent Medal," given to him in 2017 by the Royal Musical Association from Britain and the International Musicological Society of Basel, which recognized his “outstanding contributions to musicology.”

Silvia Bermúdez is Professor of Iberian Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she serves as Chair. Her current scholarship centers on Iberian feminisms, Migration and the Politics of Belonging, and Mediterranean Music. Her recent publications include, Rocking the Boat: Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music, published in 2018 at the University of Toronto Press, an exciting study of songs that challenged Spain’s notion of homogeneity, boundaries, accommodation, and incorporation. Also in 2018, She co-edited with Roberta Johnson A New History of Iberian Feminisms. And in 2019 with Anthony Geist she co-edited Cartographies of Madrid: Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global South and Global North. Last, but not least, she was conferred a 2019 UCSB Academic Senate Graduate Mentor Award--one of only three granted last year.

Tom McEnaney is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese at the University of California at Berkeley. His work focuses on the intersection of sound studies, media theory, and linguistic anthropology in the literatures and cultures of the Americas, especially Argentina, Cuba, and the United States. His articles have appeared in Representations, Variaciones Borges, Cultural Critique, Revista de estudios hispánicos, Sounding Out!, and La Habana Elegante, among others. His book, Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas, published by the Northwestern University Press in 2017, has been shortlisted for the 2018 Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize, and investigates the co-evolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States. The book charts the rise and fall of populism and state socialism, and how authors in these countries began to re-conceive novel writing as an act of listening in order to shape the creation and understanding of the vox populi. His next book project will investigate textual and musical experiments with tape technology in the late 1960s and their consequences for testimonial writing, rock Nacional, electronic music, and audiobooks in the Americas.

Alejandra Bronfman is Associate Professor of Latin American, Caribbean and Latina/o Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Caribbean and the creation of media circuits in the early 20th century with particular attention to imperial dynamics and changing political practices, as well as questions about the relevance of sound and listening to modes of affiliation and belonging. Her most recent book, Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), traces the early 20th century emergence of broadcasting in Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti, and demonstrates the ways broadcasting transformed social and political life. She is also the co-editor of Sound, Media and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) as well as articles on sound and media in Sound Studies, Small Axe, the Hispanic American Historical Review. Bronfman teaches courses on media history, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality and US imperialism in Latin American and the Caribbean, and American imperialism in the Americas. Current research interests include the materiality of media; sound, violence and the production of knowledge.

LASTESIS are an interdisciplinary feminist collective created by Chilean artists and activists Sibila Sotomayor and Daffne Valdés, in the field of the performing arts, Paula Cometa Stange, in the field of design and history, and Lea Cáceres, in the field of costume design. The four women formed the collective in order to give visibility to the women's protests against gender-based violence. The name of the group comes from the thesis of feminist authors on which they rely to write the lyrics of their songs, such as the writings of Rita Segato.