Oliver Wang
CSU-Long Beach Professor of Sociology
Los Angeles
Associate Producer, Pop Conference 2024
Oliver Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU-Long Beach and the author of
Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews of the San Francisco Bay Area (Duke Univ. Press, 2015). He is a founding member of the Pop Conference Executive Committee, chair of the 2021 Pop Convergence Programming Committee, and a former co-editor of the
Journal of Popular Music Studies. In the mid-2000s, he created the audioblog,
Soul-Sides.com and from 2017-2021, he co-hosted the weekly music/interview podcast,
Heat Rocks, alongside Morgan Rhodes. He is currently the project curator for the 2025 Japanese American National Museum exhibit,
Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community.