Mario Dunkel teaches in the music department of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. His articles have appeared in American Music, Popular Music and Society, The European Journal of Musicology, and other outlets. He is also the author of Aesthetics of Resistance: Charles Mingus and the Civil Rights Movement. His research interests include transcultural music pedagogy, the practice and repercussions of German music diplomacy as well as the conceptualization and performance of music history in Europe and the U.S. Sina A. Nitzsche is an instructor and researcher at the Department of American Studies at the Technical University Dortmund. She is coeditor of the essay collections Hip-Hop in Europe: Cultural Identities and Transnational Flows and Breaking the Panel!: Comics as a Medium. Her research interests focus on the intersections of cultural studies, media studies, and urban studies, with a particular emphasis on hip-hop, the Bronx, urban theory, and popular cultures.