Amy Bauer is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of California, Irvine.

Tara Browner holds a joint appointment in American Indian Studies and Ethnomusicology at UCLA. She is the author of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow (University of Illinois Press, 2002), editor of Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North American Music (University of Illinois Press, 2009), editor of Songs from “A New Circle of Voices”: The 16th Annual Pow-wow at UCLA (Music of the United States of America [MUSA], A-R Editions, Madison, Wisconsin, 2008), and co-editor of Rethinking American Music (University of Illinois Press, 2019).

James Burns is Associate Professor of Music and Africana Studies at Binghamton University.

Andrew Killick is a Reader in Ethnomusicology at the University of Sheffield, UK.

George Worlasi Kwasi Dor is the holder of the McDonnell-Barksdale Chair of Ethnomusicology, Professor of Music, and the founder and director of the African Drum and Dance Ensemble (OMADDE) at the University of Mississippi.

Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University.

Michael Schachter is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows.

Dr. Boaz Tarsi is an associate professor at the College of Music of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Michael Tenzer is Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia.

Chun-Yan Tse is a research associate in the Department of Music of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Richard Widdess is Emeritus Professor of Musicology in the Department of Music, School of Arts, SOAS University of London.

Chun-Fung Wong is an independent scholar.