Brian Griffith is a media producer and independent cultural scholar. He earned an MA in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied issues of class and modernity in Costa Rican folklore. As an ethnomusicologist, he has served as assistant editor for the Latin American Music Review and Programming Director for college radio station KVRX, where he DJ’d and hosted interviews with local Middle Eastern musicians and world music fusion artists.  He is currently working on a documentary about Middle Eastern music in Texas.