Michael B. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Music at the MacEwan University Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications, Canada. He is the founding program chair of the MusCan Film Series, serves on the editorial board of the journal Intersections, is the program committee for KISMIF (Keep it Simple, Make it Fast), is on the scientific committee for COMbART, and is an active member of the International Council of Traditional Music Study Group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology. He is the author of Playing for Change (2016), Remix and Life Hack in HipHop (2016), and Finding Phish (2020).