Popular Music in Leeds: Histories, Heritage, People and Places (Urban Music Studies) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Brett Lashua is Lecturer, Sociology of the Media and Education, University College London

Karl Spracklen is an associate professor of sociology of leisure and culture at Leeds Beckett University and a visiting professor at the University of Huddersfield. He is one of the co-founders of the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS) and the first principal editor of Metal Music Studies. He is interested in identity, social justice, subcultures, resistance and alternativity. He has written eight monographs that have had some greater or lesser impact.

Contact: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Portland Building, Leeds Beckett University, City Campus, Leeds LS1 3HE, UK.

Kitty Ross is Curator of Leeds History and Social History, Leeds Museums and Galleries. 

Paul Thompson is a professional recording engineer, educator and Reader in popular music at Leeds Beckett University. He is the author of Creativity in the Recording Studio: Alternative Takes (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) and co-author of Paul McCartney and His Creative Practice: The Beatles and Beyond (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) with Professor Phillip McIntyre.

Contact: Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, Portland Way, Leeds, LS1 3BP, UK.