David Novak is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music. He is the author of the award-winning Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (2013) and the co-editor of Keywords in Sound (2015), as well as recent essays and sound recordings in Public Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Popular Music, Sensory Studies, and The Wire.