Robert Strachan is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool. He has published widely on a variety of aspects of music and sound, including technology, creativity, audiovisual media and the history of British Black music. He is the author of Sonic Technologies: Popular Music, Digital Culture and the Creative Process (2017).

Marion Leonard is a Reader in the Department of Music at the University of Liverpool. She is author of Gender in the Music Industry (2007) and Popular Music and Museums (forthcoming). She has published on a range of popular music topics, while her current research has a focus on aspects of music heritage. She has co-edited The Beat Goes On: Liverpool, Popular Music and the Changing City (2010) and Sites of Music Heritage (2014).

Roy Shuker is Adjunct Professor in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His previous publications include Popular Music Culture. The Key Concepts (Fifth edition, 2022); Understanding Popular Music Culture (Fifth edition, 2016); and Wax Trash and Vinyl Treasures: Record Collecting as a Social Practice (2010).