The Contributors (Volume 1)

GUSTAVO S. AZENHA is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Anthropology, Barnard College (Columbia University). His research focuses on technologies, globalization and 'world music'. He is currently engaged in an ethnographic study of computer technologies and music making in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil), in which he explores the role of emergent technologies in the creation and circulation of music within Bahia's 'underground' music scenes.

CARLO CENCIARELLI is a first year PhD student at King's College, London, where he is researching later twentieth-century artistic reuses of J.S. Bach's keyboard works, with a particular focus on cinematic appropriations of the Goldberg Variations. His research interests revolve around the range of ways in which music is re-thought and reused, whether it be through compositional revision, editorial intervention, academic criticism, recomposition or multimedia interaction, and on the ways in which these manoeuvres problematise our notions of aesthetic identity and historical change. He previously studied at the Conservatorio Alfredo Casella, L'Aquila, Italy (Composition), at the University of Southampton (BA) and King's College, London (MMUS).

VIC GAMMON is Senior Lecturer in Folk and Traditional Music in the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University and has previously worked as a teacher, a musician, in American higher education and at the Universities of Sussex, Huddersfield and Leeds. His D Phil was on vernacular and religious music in nineteenth-century Sussex and his research interests centre on British and North American traditional and popular musics. He recently finished a book of essays entitled Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, to be published by Ashgate. He is a performer of English traditional music (mainly on the anglo concertina, melodeon and banjo) and has composed music for a number of stage and radio plays.

SARAH HILL earned the PhD from Cardiff University in 2002 for her work on Welsh-language popular music and cultural identity. Her book on the subject will be published by Ashgate in September 2007. She is currently working on a cultural history of popular music in San Francisco, 1965-69, and is co-editing a book on the work of Peter Gabriel.

RICHARD MIDDLETON is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Newcastle, where he still spends some time (not least on helping with Radical Musicology).