Lorena Alvarado is assistant professor in the Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies Department at the University of California, Merced. Her work develops a theory of sentimiento (feeling) as it manifests in the canción ranchera, paying particular attention to voice, gender and mediation. She has published book chapters in the Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media and the Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature.
Patrick Burke is associate professor and chair of the Department of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Tear Down the Walls: White Radicalism and Black Power in 1960s Rock and Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Kamilah Cummings is a writer, editor, and visiting senior lecturer at DePaul University in Chicago. She has presented on Prince at Purple...
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