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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.