Josh Kun is a professor in the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism where he also directs The Popular Music Project of The Norman Lear Center. He is the author or editor of several books, including Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (2005) and Songs in the Key of Los Angeles: Sheet Music and the Making of Southern California (2013), a collaboration with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles out in May. As a curator, his music installations and exhibitions have appeared in venues such as The Skirball Cultural Center, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Latin American Art. He curated the 2012 Pacific Standard Time exhibition "Trouble in Paradise: Music and Los Angeles 1945-75" at the Grammy Museum, and designed the music for the Autry National Center exhibition on the history of Jews in Los Angeles, which opens later this year. He is currently the resident "Collector of Ideas" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.