Dave Robb is a Reader in Music at Queen’s University Belfast. His research has focussed generally on the role of musical forms of protest in German history going back to 1848. Completing his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1995 he was a post-doctoral tutor in Kulturwissenschaft at the Humboldt University in Berlin before being appointed to German Studies at Queen’s in 1999. His first book Zwei Clowns im Lande des verlorenen Lachens. Das Liedertheater Wenzel and Mensching was published in Berlin in 1998. He was editor and main author of Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s (2007) and co-author of Songs for a Revolution. The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany with Eckhard John (2020). This book stemmed from a British Academy and AHRC/DFG-funded online research project with the University of Freiburg (2008-12). He is currently the holder of an AHRC Fellowship on ‘The Political Songs of Gerhard Gundermann in an East German and International Context’. 

Ioannis Tsioulakis is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, at Queen’s University Belfast. He has previously lectured in ethnomusicology at University College Cork and University College Dublin. Ioannis completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Following this, he specialised in ethnomusicology and social anthropology, completing his MA (2006) and PhD (2011) at Queen’s University Belfast. Ioannis’s first monograph, Musicians in Crisis: Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry was published by Routledge in 2020. The book looks at the diverse socio-cultural worlds of music-making in the Greek capital with an emphasis on precarity and economic austerity.