José G. Anguiano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A./Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Anguiano is a cultural studies scholar with a primary focus in listeners and audiences of popular music. His research documents how popular music links communities of listeners across time and space, and how listening can be an active and creative form of claiming space, citizenship and respect.