The Contributors (Volume 5)

JEFFERS ENGELHARDT Jeffers Engelhardt is an ethnomusicologist and an assistant professor at Amherst College. His research deals with music and religion and the musics of postsocialist Eurasia and the Finno-Ugric world (particularly Estonia). His first book Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia and a co-edited volume Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual will both be published by Oxford University Press.

DAI GRIFFITHS has published widely in the areas of critical musicology and popular music. His publications cover aspects of music analysis and critical musicology, historical and theoretical topics in popular music, Welsh popular music, and several studies of single songwriters and songs. Recent publications include: Radiohead OK Computer (2004) and Elvis Costello (2007).

ANAHID KASSABIAN is the James and Constance Alsop Chair of Music at Liverpool University. Her research and teaching focus on ubiquitous music; music, sound, and moving images; listening; disciplinarity; music and new technologies, especially games, virtual worlds, and pervasive computing; and music and media scholarship drawing on feminist and postcolonial theories. Anahid currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aunt Lute Books (since 1992), a feminist press in San Francisco focusing on works by women writers from underrepresented communities, and on the Advisory Board of ArteEast (since 2003), a Middle East arts organization in New York City. Anahid is also working on a co-edited volume called Ubiquitous Musics, with Marta García Quiñones (University of Barcelona) and Elena Boschi (University of Liverpool). Her next single-authored book, The Soundtracks of Our Lives: Ubiquitous Musics and Distributed Subjectivities, is forthcoming with University of California Press.

FRED E. MAUS is associate professor at the University of Virginia. His research interests include theory and analysis, gender and sexuality, popular music, aesthetics and dramatic and narrative aspects of instrumental music.