The Sound of Victory

Courtney M. Cox (Editor) Courtney Cox is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her upcoming book project is titled Double Crossover: Gender, Politics, and Performance in Basketball, and her work has appeared in InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies, Journal of Homosexuality, and International Journal of Communication. She is also co-director (with Dr. Perry B. Johnson) of The Sound of Victory, a multi-platform digital humanities project located at the intersection of music, sound, and sport. She previously worked for ESPN, Longhorn Network, NPR-affiliate KPCC, and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks. Perry B. Johnson (Editor) Perry B. Johnson, Ph.D., is a lecturer at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is the co-director (with Dr. Courtney M. Cox) of The Sound of Victory, an interdisciplinary, multi-platform initiative dedicated to investigating the historical relationship between music/sound and sport, and producer/co-host of Sounding Off, a podcast that highlights the voices of athletes, artists and public intellectuals working at this intersection.

"What does innovative scholarship sound like? First, you take two emerging academic stars -- Perry B. Johnson and Courtney Cox -- and ask them to assemble a broad array of new scholarly voices from sports studies, critical race theory, sound studies, fandom studies, cultural geography and beyond to focus their attention on a historically unexplored topic, the sounds of sports. The result is music to the ears -- an expansive collection that asks fundamental questions about the relationship of sports to race, gender, the body, affect, social change, and commerce."-- "Henry Jenkins, coeditor of Popular Culture and The Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change"