Justin Patch studies music in American politics; sound studies; East Asian art music; and music in the African diaspora. He is currently engaged in two projects, a monograph on the artistic practices of contemporary American populism and an ethnographic study of sound and religion in the post-industrial areas of the Hudson Valley. His monograph, Discordant Democracy: Noise, Affect, Populism and the Presidential Campaign, was published by Routledge in 2019, and a sound studies text book Re-Making Sound: An Experiential Approach to Sound Studies, co-authored with Tom Porcello, is being published by Bloomsbury in 2021.