Journal of Texas Music History | Volume 24

Justin A. Brummer
is the founding editor of the Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) since 2007, based in Austin, Texas, a unique cultural-historical archive, cataloguing, analysing, and digitising 6000+ songs that reference the Vietnam War, as well as the acquisition of original vinyl records and other physical sources. He is co-author of the discography Vietnam on Record at the University of Maryland, and has featured in prominent news and history outlets, including the BBC, PBS, NPR, Military.com, and History Today. He gained his PhD in political history from University College London (UCL) in 2012 on Anglo-American relations during the Nixon period.

Todd Cambio
is a luthier who builds and restores stringed instruments in Madison, Wisconsin. Todd also researches the builders of these instruments, many of whom were immigrants to the US, and the musicians who played them. He has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin Madison and is the owner of the Fraulini Guitar Company.  

Tracy Anne Hart
is a Texas photographer and the author of Seeing Stevie Ray (Texas A&M University Press, 2020), her tribute to Texas music icon Stevie Ray Vaughan in her words and pictures. She is the owner of online gallery www.theheightsgallery.com. Hart is a frequent contributor to print and online media such as Guitar Player, Texas Music, and Texas Monthly, and her interview with and images of Ian Moore are featured in the December 2024 issue of Guitar World. Her prints are widely collected and exhibited in Texas, the USA, and internationally.

Alex La Rotta
is a professor at Houston Community College where he teaches U.S. and Mexican American History. An avid record collector and DJ, his work focuses on the intersections of race and popular music. He is particularly interested in how music can provide a historical lens into the mechanisms of racialization and reveal tensions and collaborations across communities of color. His book in progress, under contract with Duke University Press, investigates music affinities and cultural kinships across African American and Mexican American communities in twentieth-century San Antonio, Texas. With the support from the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, he received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Houston in 2019.

Alejandro Wolbert Pérez
teaches Ethnic Studies and Xicanx/Latinx Studies at Berkeley City College and coordinates the Faculty Diversity Internship Program for the Peralta Community College District, in Oakland, California. He has published on conjunto dance in The Journal of American Culture, and is currently working on a book manuscript, “Embodiments of Aztlán: Performers, Participants, and Place in the Texas Mexican Conjunto.” Prior to pursing a doctorate, he wrote extensively upon conjunto music and other forms of Xicanx and Latinx cultural expression as a journalist for the San Antonio Current.

Stephanie Vander Wel
is Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on the singing voice, performance, and representations of gender, class, race, and region in country music. She is the author of book Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Singing Cowgirls: Women in Country Music, 1930-1960, published by University of Illinois Press in 2020 and named by PopMatters as one of the best nonfiction books of 2020.