John Shepherd is a Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Carleton University, Canada. He has been a member of EPMOW’s editorial board since 1990 and has published widely in the sociology and aesthetics of music and popular music studies.
David Horn was a founding editor of the journal
Popular Music and a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). He proposed the idea of EPMOW with blues scholar Paul Oliver in the 1980s and has worked on the project since then.
Dave Laing is the author of several books on popular music and a former editor of Music Week. Former Research Fellow at the University of Westminster where he conducted research on the music industry.
Paul Oliver is a Fellow of Oxford Brookes University.
Peter Wicke was
Professor of the Theory and History of Popular Music and retirement Director of the Research Centre for Popular Music at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, until his retirement in 2016. He is one of the founding members of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).