James Gabrillo is a pop music researcher of global culture industries and digital technologies. His book project Pop Convergence (under contract with Oxford University Press) examines the aesthetics and networks of musical multimedia in contemporary Manila. Gabrillo's research has been published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Musical Quarterly, Rock Music Studies, American Music Perspectives, and the Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies.

He has forthcoming work in the collections Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation, the Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies, and Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production.

Gabrillo previously worked as a journalist and editor for various publications including The National and Al Jazeera English. His multimedia work has also appeared on Rolling Stone Italia, Wired, and The Japan Times. More on www.jamesgabrillo.com.