Ananay Aguilar is a scholar and consultant in copyright and cultural policy affiliated with the Centre of Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) at the University of Cambridge. Her book on the legal rights of performers in the UK music industry is under contract with Palgrave.

Ross Cole is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His research interests extend from the late 19th century up to the present, with a particular focus on popular culture and experimentalism. He has just finished the manuscript of his first book, entitled The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination.

Matthew Pritchard is Lecturer in Musical Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He has published on aspects of music aesthetics from c.1750-1930 in Germany, and is working on a book examining the aesthetics of this period through the lens of the 'history of emotions'. He also writes on and translates the songs and musical essays of Rabindranath Tagore.

Eric Clarke is Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College. He has published on topics in the psychology of music and related areas. His books include Empirical Musicology (2004), Ways of Listening (2005), Music and Mind in Everyday Life (2010), Music and Consciousness (2011), and Distributed Creativity (2017).