Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar and curator. His research explores the relationships between Afrosonic innovations, hip hop archives and notions of the human. He is assistant professor of music and culture and director of the Afrosonic Innovation Lab at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Contact: University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, ON m1c 1A4, Canada.

Murray Forman is professor of media and screen studies at Northeastern University. He is author of The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop and One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television. He is also co-editor of Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production and three editions of That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. In 2003-2004, he was awarded a US National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and he was an inaugural recipient of the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University (2014-2015).