Perry B. Johnson (Editor) Perry B. Johnson is a music scholar, cultural historian, and producer. Johnson is the codirector of The Sound of Victory (with Dr. Courtney M. Cox), an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to exploring the historic relationship between music, sound, and sport, and cohost of the PBS documentary series Outside the Lyrics. Johnson teaches in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.Courtney M. Cox (Editor) Courtney M. Cox is Associate Professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon and author of Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball. She is also codirector of The Sound of Victory, a multiplatform digital humanities project at the intersection of music, sound, and sport. She previously worked for ESPN, the Longhorn Network, NPR-affiliate KPCC, and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks.

"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  "This deeply researched and beautifully immersive book takes a brilliantly unique angle when looking into modes of fandom, seamlessly weaving in sound, and song. It is an achievement as both an academic text, but also, a massive achievement in storytelling and world-building." - Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension  "With The Sound of Victory, Cox and Johnson have done a great service to sports fans and listeners alike. Surrounded by a cast of astute listeners, they give us the breadth and depth of how music and sound shape the modern sport experience – from 100db arena hip hop blasts during time-outs to tennis grunts, MLB sing-a-longs, soccer chants, and even the acoustic design of stadiums. With sound and music more baked into sport than ever before, this is a timely and enlightening volume" - Josh Kun, University of Southern California

Perry B. Johnson (Editor) Perry B. Johnson is a music scholar, cultural historian, and producer. Johnson is the codirector of The Sound of Victory (with Dr. Courtney M. Cox), an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to exploring the historic relationship between music, sound, and sport, and cohost of the PBS documentary series Outside the Lyrics. Johnson teaches in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.Courtney M. Cox (Editor) Courtney M. Cox is Associate Professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon and author of Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball. She is also codirector of The Sound of Victory, a multiplatform digital humanities project at the intersection of music, sound, and sport. She previously worked for ESPN, the Longhorn Network, NPR-affiliate KPCC, and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks.

"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  "This deeply researched and beautifully immersive book takes a brilliantly unique angle when looking into modes of fandom, seamlessly weaving in sound, and song. It is an achievement as both an academic text, but also, a massive achievement in storytelling and world-building." - Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension  "With The Sound of Victory, Cox and Johnson have done a great service to sports fans and listeners alike. Surrounded by a cast of astute listeners, they give us the breadth and depth of how music and sound shape the modern sport experience – from 100db arena hip hop blasts during time-outs to tennis grunts, MLB sing-a-longs, soccer chants, and even the acoustic design of stadiums. With sound and music more baked into sport than ever before, this is a timely and enlightening volume" - Josh Kun, University of Southern California