10 Facts About Josh Kun

Josh Kun is an American author, academic and music critic.

Josh Kun is Professor of Communication and Journalism and chair in Cross-Cultural Communication in the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California.

Josh Kun holds a joint appointment at USC's Department of American Studies and Ethnicity.

Josh Kun is the director of USC Annenberg's School of Communication, director of The Popular Music Project at USC Annenberg's the Norman Lear Center and co-editor of the book series "Refiguring American Music" for Duke University Press.

Josh Kun serves on the boards of Dublab, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and the Latin American Cinemateca, and on the editorial boards of American Quarterly, the International Journal of Communications, and The Journal of Popular Music Studies.

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Josh Kun has worked as a consultant and curator with The Los Angeles Public Library, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Autry National Center, and the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Josh Kun attended the Harvard School, a private university preparatory day school in Los Angeles, and then Duke University, where he received a B A in literature in 1993.

Josh Kun graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.

Josh Kun's research focuses on the arts and politics of cultural connection, with an emphasis on popular music, the cultures of globalization, the US-Mexico border, and Jewish-American musical history.

Essentially, Josh Kun argues that "No Hay Manera" is a sufficient representation of the idea that cultural and musical hybridity is a form of authenticity, and that immigrant communities express their diaspora in an active, not passive, fashion.