Emery Marc Petchauer is an award winning researcher and educator, veteran turntablist and crate digger, and tenured professor at Michigan State University. He is the author or editor of four books and over 40 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and editorials. As a community accountable artist, he has established or helped sustain intergenerational spaces of expression over the past 20 years in each city he has lived : San Diego; Philadelphia; Norfolk, VA; Detroit and Pontiac, MI.
He believes the greatest critique is living the solution.1
He prefers building stages over being on them.
He favors candles in the spotlight era.2