Jon Dale is a writer and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches across a number of fields (popular music, experimental writing, media studies, criminology, sociology, screen studies) at a number of institutions. He also writes for the English music magazine Uncut, and contributes liner notes and essays to a number of record labels and other publications. He is currently working on several books about DIY and post-punk music, and texts on experimental film and diary film making. He also runs the record labels Tristes Tropiques and Rose Hobart.
Jon Stratton is Adjunct Professor in the School of Creative Industries at the University of South Australia. His most recent publications include
Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945 (edited with Nabeel Zuberi, 2014) and
When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines 1945-2010 (2014).
Tony Mitchell is an honorary research associate at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of
Popular Music and Local Identity: Rock, Pop and Rap in Europe and Oceania (1994), editor of
Global Noise: Rap and Hip hop outside the USA (2001), co-editor of
North Meets South: Popular Music in Aotearoa New Zealand (2004),
Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia (2007),
Home, Land and Sea: Situating Music in Aotearoa New Zealand (2011) and
Sounds Icelandic (2017).