Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed

About B+

Brian B+ Cross is one of the most prominent music photographers working today. He has photographed more than one hundred album covers for artists such as Company Flow Damian Marley David Axelrod DJ Shadow Flying Lotus Eazy-E J Dilla Jurassic 5 Madlib Mos Def and Q-Tip. Cross was the director of photography for the Academy Awardnominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop and he has made several feature-length music films and many music videos. His photos have appeared in the New York Times Rolling Stone Vibe the Fader and the Wire.B+ is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego and cofounder of Mochilla a production house whose output includes feature-length music documentaries music videos music and photography. A former student of award-winning author Mike Davis and photographer Allan Sekula Cross was the photo editor of the music magazine Wax Poetics from 2004 to 2010 and Rap Pages from 1993 to 1998. Crosss 1993 book on the LA hip-hop scene Its Not About a Salary was on best book of the year lists for Rolling Stone and NME magazines and Vibe named it one of the top ten hip-hop books of all time.Writer musician and producer Greg Tate is a contributor to Rolling Stone the New York Times the Washington Post Artforum Essence and Vibe. He is a former staff writer for the Village Voice cofounder of the Black Rock Coalition and author of four books including Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader. Tate has been a visiting professor in Africana studies at Brown University and in jazz studies at Columbia University.Award-winning author Jeff Chang is executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University and a contributor to the Nation the New York Times the San Francisco Chronicle the Believer Mother Jones Vibe and Spin among other publications. Changs first book Cant Stop Wont Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation won the 2005 American Book Award and he was a 2008 USA Ford Fellow in Literature.Writer and historian Dave Tompkins writes frequently about hip-hop and popular music. His work has appeared in Vibe the Village Voice the Believer the Wire Grantland and Wax Poetics. His 2011 book How to Wreck a Nice Beach: A Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop was called one of the greatest music books ever written by the Los Angeles Times.