Gary Burns is Professor of Communication at Northern Illinois University, Editor of the journal Popular Music and Society , Executive Secretary of the Midwest Popular Culture Association, and Vice President of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association.
James M. Decker is Associate Professor of English at Illinois Central College. He is the author of Ideology (2003) and Henry Miller and Narrative Form : Constructing the Self, Rejecting Modernity (2005). In addition to contributing numerous articles to such publications as College Literature and Style , he is editor of Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal .
Anthony DeCurtis is a renowned author and music critic who has written for Rolling Stone , the New York Times, Relix , and a host of other publications. He is the author of Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters (1998) and In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work (2005). He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Walter Everett is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music Theory at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance. He is the author of the two-volume set The Beatles as Musicians (1999, 2001) and the editor of the essay collection Expression in Pop-Rock Music (1999), and is currently writing a book entitled The Foundations of Rock from Blue Suede Shoes to Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.
Michael Frontani is Coordinator of American Studies and Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Elon University, where he teaches courses on film history, film theory, popular music, and mass culture. He is the author of The Beatles: Image and the Media (2007), which was selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, and numerous essays on popular music, reception, and culture. He is currently working on book-length studies of the Italian American image in American mass consumer society and on American cinema's development and evolution within the context of US culture.
Steve Hamelman is Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, where he teaches American literature and literary theory. He has written many essays on early American fiction and pop music. He is the author of But Is It Garbage? On Rock and Trash (2004), as well as the recipient of Popular Music and Society 's R. Serge Denisoff Award.
Ian Inglis is Reader in Popular Music Studies at the University of Northumbria. His doctoral research considered the role of sociological, social-psychological, and cultural theory in explanations of the career of the Beatles. His books include The Beatles, Popular Music and Society: A Thousand Voices (2000), Popular Music and Film (2003), and Performance and Popular Music (2006). He is currently preparing The Words and Music of George Harrison for Praeger's Singer-Songwriter series.
John Kimsey received his PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and serves as Associate Professor in DePaul University's School for New Learning. He teaches and writes about modern literature and popular music and has also worked as a professional musician. His writings have appeared in Sgt. Pepper & the Beatles: It Was Forty Years Ago Today (2008); Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four (2006); and the Journal of Popular Music Studies , among other publications.
Howard Kramer is the Curatorial Director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Since joining the museum in 1996, Kramer has curated exhibits on Elvis Presley, the Supremes, Hank Williams, the Doors, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Beach Boys, and many others. His writings have appeared in Rolling Stone , the Cleveland Plain Dealer , and Gadfly Magazine .
Dave Laing is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool. His books include The Sound of Our Time (1970) and One Chord Wonders (1985). He is co-editor of The Faber/Da Capo Companion to Twentieth-Century Popular Music (1990) and the Continuum Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World (20025).
Jim LeBlanc is Head of Database Management Services at the Cornell University Library, where he has worked since receiving his PhD from Cornell in 1984. In addition to library-related writing and research, his areas of current scholarly interest include popular music, existential phenomenology, and James Joyce studies.