Josh Kun is an L.A.-based writer, critic, and scholar whose work focuses on popular music, the US-Mexico border, and the cultures of globalization. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (UC Press) and co-author of And You Shall Know Us By The Trail Of Our Vinyl, a re-telling of Jewish-American history through LP covers (Random House). He is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC, where he also directs the Popular Music Project at the Norman Lear Center.