Kristin McGee is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Groningen. She convenes the MA track in Popular Music and Sonic Studies and coordinates the graduate research group on Music and Culture. Her research projects and publications span topics and approaches including ecocritical studies of soundscapes and urban ecologies, popular music and jazz performance practices and ideologies, and music’s role within audiovisual media through the lens of gender, sexuality, and race. Publications include Some Liked it Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959 (Wesleyan University Press 2009), Remixing European Jazz Culture (Routledge 2020), and a co-edited volume Beyoncé in the World: Meaning Making in Troubled Times (Wesleyan 2021). McGee is also a saxophonist and has performed with groups in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Groningen.