Jake Croman is currently a graduate student at New York University. He recently graduated from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, where he was an American Culture major in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Jake enjoyed the interdisciplinary nature of Michigan’s American Culture program, a department which is held in high regard throughout academia as a premier center for American studies and scholarship. The program has provided Jake Croman with an opportunity to explore his intellectual interest in music within the larger context of American culture. He also enjoys that his coursework helped him develop a framework through which he can understand social identities and our contemporary media landscape.