The Contributors (Volume 2)

IAN BIDDLE is Senior Lecturer in music and cultural theory and is currently Head of Music at Newcastle University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Music and Inclusivity. He completed his PhD, under Ronald Woodley and David Clarke, at Newcastle and has taught at UEA, Norwich (1995-7) and at Newcastle University (since 1998). He has published widely on Austro-German music, music gender and sexuality and music and globalisation. Recent works include a monograph on music, masculinity and the Austro-German tradition and a co-edited volume of essays (with Kirsten Gibson) on masculinity and Western musical practice (both for Ashgate).

DAVID CECCHETTO is an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought at the University of Victoria, from which school he also holds the degree of M.Mus. (Composition). David’s artistic practice (ranging from sound installation to performance art to concert music) has been presented in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Russia, and his academic research has been published internationally. David is currently co-editing a collection titled Collision: Interarts Practice and Research (Cambridge Scholars Press, Winter 2008).

DAVID CLARKE is Professor of Music at Newcastle University. He is the author of numerous writings on Michael Tippett, including the monograph The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett: Modern Times and Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 2001). He is also a music theorist, with interests in analysis, aesthetics, and cultural theory. He is currently researching cultural pluralism in relation to modernist and postmodernist thought and practice. His article in the present volume is one output from this project. Other, related pieces include: 'Elvis and Darmstadt, Or: Twentieth-Century Music and the Politics of Cultural Pluralism' (twentieth-century music 4/1 (March 2007)), ‘Musical Autonomy Revisited’ (in The Cultural Study of Music, ed. Martin Clayton et al. (Routledge, 2003)), and ‘Eminem: Difficult Dialogics’ (in Words and Music, ed. John Williamson (Liverpool University Press, 2005)).

BEN EARLE is Lecturer in music at the University of Birmingham. He has research interests in Italian and British musical modernism. Previous articles on Dallapiccola appeared in Music Analysis, 25 (2006) and in Roberto Illiano (ed.), Italian Music During the Fascist Period (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004).

TIM WISE is Lecturer in musicology and popular music at the University of Salford. The University of Liverpool awarded him the PhD in 2005 for his thesis investigating yodelling as a signifier in American popular music. His current projects include a musicological analysis of the recordings of Jimmie Rodgers.