Karl Hagstrom Miller is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin where he focuses on cultural history of the United States. He uses popular music to explore the cultural, economic, legal, and intellectual history of the United States. He is particularly interested in how transformations in commercial markets and music technology changed the ways people used music to forge their conceptions of race and region, to imagine their relationship to the wider world, to comprehend the past, and to dream about the future.