Susan Miyo Asai is professor emerita of ethnomusicology at Northeastern University, with expertise spanning Japanese traditional performing arts, Japanese American music and identity formation, and the intersection of Asian American and African American music and politics. She is coeditor of At the Crossroads: Music and Social Justice and author of Nōmai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan and has contributed to numerous edited volumes, including The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States, published by University Press of Mississippi.