Bruno Nettl is professor of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents and The Study of Ethnomusicology. In 2012 he was awarded the Charles�Homer�Haskins�Prize, which is presented annually to a distinguished humanist by the American Council of Learned Societies
Timothy Rommenis Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author ofMek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad(UC Press), which in 2008 was awarded the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Thomas Turino is Professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.