Phil Ford is an associate professor of musicology at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and affiliate faculty in IU’s Cognitive Science Program. His research explores postwar American culture, sound, performance, philosophy, and countercultural thought, culminating in Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture (Oxford, 2013) and essays in Representations, Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, Jazz Perspectives, and more. Beyond academia, he co-founded the blog Dial ‘M’ for Musicology (2006–2018) and since 2018 has co-hosted the arts and philosophy podcast Weird Studies with J. F. Martel. His public scholarship extends to recent essays in Journal of Musicological Research, North American Review, Daedalus, and the forthcoming book Weirding (Strange Attractor).