The Contributors (Volume 4)

PETE DALE has been a performing musician in the punk/indie field since the early 1990s, appearing on dozens of albums and singles as well as live performances all over Europe and North America, Peel Sessions and so on. He also co-ran the well-respected Slampt Underground Organisation from 1992-2000. In more recent years he has worked as a music teacher in an inner-city secondary school whilst simultaneously studying for an MA in Music at Newcastle University (passed with distinction, 2005) and a nearly-completed PhD since 2006. His PhD enquires as to whether the statement 'Anyone Can Do It', often made in punk and folk musics, is well-grounded in strict philosophical and political terms. He has recently had an article published in Popular Music History and has reviewed books for Popular Music.

SIMON KEEGAN-PHIPPS is a Teaching Fellow in Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in the field of contemporary English folk and traditional music, and has published on the educational institutionalisation and recontextualisation of traditional music in modern England. He completed a PhD in Ethnomusicology at the International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS) at Newcastle University in 2008, before going on to work as project researcher on the AHRC-funded project `Performing Englishness in New English Folk Music and Dance, at the University of Sunderland (2007-9). He is currently working on a monograph on education in England's folk music culture and a co-authored book (with Trish Winter) on politics and identity in the contemporary English folk resurgence.

A. KIARINA KORDELA is the author of $urplus: Spinoza, Lacan (SUNY Press, 2007) and several articles on subjects ranging from German literature and literary theory, to philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, sexual difference, film, cultural studies, analysis of ideology, political theory, and biopolitics, published in collections and journals such as Spinoza Now, European Film Theory, The Dreams of Interpretation, Modern Language Studies, Angelaki, Cultural Critique, Parallax, Rethinking Marxism, Political Theory, Monokl (in Turkish translation), and Hihuo kukan [Critical Space] (in Japanese translation).

ELDRITCH PRIEST is a composer and PhD candidate at Carleton University, where he writes (about) musical nonsense. His works, which have been described as 'resolutely weird' and 'wondrously mundane', sometimes even 'like good acid', concern themselves with the singular nature of failure and insufficiency, though they sometimes fail to satisfy these criteria. eldritch is also co-artistic director of the Toronto-based experimental music collective neither/nor.

STACEY SEWELL is a PhD candidate at Dartington College of Arts. Her current research examines contemporary compositions that sample bodily sound through the creation and application of an embodied analysis.