
Josh Kun is Vice Provost for the Arts at USC, and Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication at the USC Annenberg School. His books include Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America; Songs in the Key of Los Angeles; Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez, and several others. As a curator his projects and exhibitions have appeared with The Los Angeles Public Library, LACMA, The Getty Foundation, California African American Museum, The Grammy Museum, and more. As an artist his work has appeared with SFMOMA, Prospect New Orleans, and Steve Turner Gallery.
He is the recipient of a Berlin Prize, an American Book Award, and in 2016 was named a MacArthur Fellow.
In 2024, Josh was nominated for a Grammy for Best Album Notes – SONtrack Original De La Película “Al Son De Beno.”
You can read the album notes here
You can listen to the soundtrack here
You can watch the film here
Josh on being nominated for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards
“I don’t know how this little independent film and its companion indie soundtrack full of traditional Mexican music recorded in the 1960s and 70s found its way to a Grammy ballot, but here we are,” Kun says. “Writing these album notes was a true honor and I hope the Grammy attention creates an opportunity for more people to hear the music that Beno Lieberman devoted his life to- some of the most important and extraordinary music in the world.”
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