Oskar Cox Jensen is NUAcT Fellow in Music at Newcastle University, UK. His current project is entitled ‘The Invention of Pop Music: Mainstream Song, Class, and Culture, 1520–2020’. He is also a core member of the research project oursubversivevoice.com and a founder member of the Romantic National Song Network and the Nineteenth-Century Song Club. He is the author of Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London (Duckworth, 2022); The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London (Cambridge, 2021); and Napoleon and British Song, 1797–1822 (Palgrave, 2015); and co-editor of Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture (Oxford, 2018) and a special forum of Journal of British Studies: Music and Politics in Britain (2021). Oskar is also an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker and novelist.

Noriko Manabe is Professor of Music Theory, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University. She researches music in social movements and popular music in Japan and the Americas, with publications on antinuclear movements, protest chants, hip hop, intertextuality, the music industry, and music and language. Her first monograph, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music after Fukushima, won prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Ethnomusicology, and her article on Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” won prizes from the Society for Music Theory. She is editor of 33-1/3 Japan, a book series on Japanese popular music from Bloomsbury, and co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Protest Music (with Eric Drott).

Ian Peddie teaches English and Cultural Studies at Sul Ross State University in Texas. Much of his work is concerned with class, forms of inequality, social exclusion, and human rights.  He has published extensively on these subjects, notably as editor of and contributor to The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest (2006), Popular Music and Human Rights (2 Vols, 2011), Music and Protest, 1900-2000,  and Popular Music and Social Class (2020).

John Street is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia. He has been the principal investigator of ‘Our Subversive Voice: the history and politics of the English protest song’, an AHRC project that ran from 2020 to 2022. He has written extensively about the relationship between music, media and politics, including the books Music and Politics (Polity, 2012), From Entertainment to Citizenship: the politics of popular culture (with Sanna Inthorn and Martin Scott) (Manchester University Press, 2013) and Media, Politics and Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is a member of the editorial group of Popular Music, and recently co-edited a special issue on the ‘Prosecuting and Policing Rap’.