Nicola Watchman Smith Editor

Sarah Raine is a Research Fellow at Birmingham City University. She is co-Managing Editor of Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music, Review Editor and special issue Guest Editor (2018) for IASPM@Journal, and the Network Coordinator for Jazz & Everyday Aesthetics. Tim Wall is Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies, and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University. His publications include the second edition of Studying Popular Music Culture. Nicola Watchman Smith is Head of Higher Education at Newcastle College University Centre and a cultural sociologist and researcher. She has published widely on northern soul, including chapters in The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology (2009) and Ageing and Youth Cultures: Music, Style and Identity (2012).