Matthew D. Morrison, Associate Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and author of Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States Daphne A. Brooks, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, and music at Yale University, and author of Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound Larry Wayte, Senior Instructor at the University of Oregon and author of Pay for Play: How the Music Industry Works, Where the Money Goes, and Why