John Covach
Professor of Music and Director of the Institute for Popular Music; Professor of Theory at Eastman School of Music · University of Rochester
John Covach is an expert on the history of popular and rock music, 12-tone music, and the philosophy and aesthetics of music.
Rock 'n' Roll Music and Culture Progressive Rock in the 1970s The Beatles Popular Music
Professor Karl Spracklen
Director of Research · Leeds Beckett University
Professor Karl Spracklen has written extensively on music, identity, and culture, with interests in alternativity and marginalisation.
Nationalism and Identity in Music Leisure and Diaspora Sociology Music Racism
Melissa Avdeeff
Assistant Professor · Coventry University
Popular culture, specialising in pop music; music technology and society; social media and fandom.
Artifical Intelligence and music Popular Music Popular Culture Music Technology and Society Fandom
Professor Sue Miller
Professor · Leeds Beckett University
Sue Miller specialises in Cuban/Latin music, improvisation, music analysis and music history.
African American Music Artistic Practice Gesture and Dance Relationships Improvisation Studies Latin Music in the USA
Peter Krapp
Professor, Film & Media Studies · UC Irvine
Expertise in: Secret communications & cryptologic history; cultural memory and media history; history of computing & simulations
Media History Cultural Memory Aesthetic Communication Cryptologic History Secret Communications
Priya Rehal
MA in Communication and Culture, Fan Studies Researcher · Independent
Montreal and Toronto based researcher and educator
Race Race Culture and Ethnicity Race Gender and Class in Organization Processes Race Gender and Sexuality Sexual and Gender Identity
Daniel Cornfield
Professor of Sociology · Vanderbilt University
Expert in the American labor movement, the creative class, and work and occupation issues generally.
labor & employment Creative Class Unionization Labor Unions Musicians
David Carter
Assistant Professor of Music (Theory/Composition) · Loyola Marymount University
Assistant Professor of Music (Theory/Composition)
Tin Pan Alley Microtiming The Rolling Stones Popular Music Popular Music Analysis
Dr Patrycja Rozbicka
Senior Lecturer · Aston University
Dr Rozbicka works on interest groups in policy-making and live music industry regulation in the UK.
IR Aesthetics Regulation of Live Music Interest Groups Live Music Industry Brexit
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Ph.D.
Professor of History · University of Connecticut
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar’s research interests include the 20th century United States, with a focus in African American history.
African American Studies U.S. Popular Culture Black Nationalism Social History Twentieth-Century United States
Vanessa Díaz
Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Music oral & life histories Latin America political culture diasporas
David Neale
President · Neale and Associates
Highly regarded personality in the content, wireless and telecommunications industry whose knowledge comes with no strings attached!
Digital Media Mobile Technology Software for Mobile Devices Wireless Technology Iptv
Charles Leech
Partner & Executive Vice President (Qualitative) · ABM Research Ltd.
Consumer Insights Philosopher-Guru slash Real World Semiotic Multidisciplinarian
Brands Branding Culture and Semiotics
Susan Mackey-Kallis, PhD
Professor of Communication | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences · Villanova University
Susan Mackey-Kallis, PhD, is an expert in film analysis and commentary, particularly in regard to pop culture.
Communication Political Rhetoric Gender, Media and Pop Culture American Film
Matt Sakakeeny
Associate Professor of Music, Ethnomusicology · Tulane University
Matt Sakakeeny studies the intersections of music, race and power.
Music Musicology Music Anthropology Ethnomusicology Brass Bands
Imani Mosley
Assistant Professor · University of Florida
Imani Mosley is an expert in Benjamin Britten; music, opera and modernism in Britain post-1945; and ethics in artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence Modernism Post-1945 Britain Music Metadata Benjamin Britten
Krystyn Moon
Professor · University of Mary Washington
Dr. Moon is an expert in U.S. immigration history, popular culture, race and ethnic studies, foodways, gender and sexuality, & consumerism.
Consumerism Foodways Popular Culture U.S. Immigration History Race and Ethnic Studies