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David Novak is the Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music at University of California Santa Barbara. His work examines transcultural relationships of media circulation through multi-sited ethnographic research. He is the author of the award-winning Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Duke UP, 2013). His current book project, Diggers: A Global Counterhistory of Popular Music, theorizes musical globalization through contemporary histories of digital and analog sound media.