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  • Contributors to issue 4:1

Kyle S. Barnett is an assistant professor of media studies in the School of Communication at Bellarmine University. His current work combines media history and popular music studies through examining production cultures in the US recording industry.

kbarnett@bellarmine.edu

Lori Burns is Professor of Music and Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa. Her work on popular music has been published in leading journals, edited collections, and in monograph form (Disruptive Divas, Routledge Press). Her current programme of research, with co-investigator Marc Lafrance, is entitled ‘Subjectivity, Embodiment, and Resistance in Popular Music by Female Artists’, and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2007–10).

laburns@uOttawa.ca

Ciarán Crilly lectures on Modernism and Music Performance at University College Dublin. He also works as a conductor and violinist. His PhD (2008) was an examination of the relationship between music and visual art in the early twentieth century. Publications include articles on Ligeti, Satie and music in film.

Ciaran.Crilly@ucd.ie

Tina Rigby Hanssen is an art historian and has previously worked as curator at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. Recently she curated the exhibition ‘Interference: Fields for Listening and Praxis’ at Moderna Museet in Stockholm together with Michael Capio. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Lillehammer University College in Norway.

tina.hanssen@hil.no

Orlene Denice McMahon is a PhD student at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge (UK). Before starting her doctoral research as a member of Gonville & Caius College, she completed a BA in Music and a multidisciplinary MA in Film at University College Cork (Ireland). Combining her two passions, music and cinema, Denice’s current research is primarily interdisciplinary, focusing on the music and composers of post-war modernist French film. Other interests lie in late-twentieth-century music, Electronic Dance Music Culture (EDMC), and music’s relationship to literature, the visual arts, and other performing arts. Denice currently holds a Travelling Studentship from the National University of Ireland, an AHRC Doctoral Award, and a Robert Gardiner Memorial Scholarship.

odm21@cam.ac.uk [End Page 131]

Barry Salmon is Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Media Studies and Film at The New School in New York. Composer, guitarist and music producer, he has scored numerous award-winning films, as well as music for dance, theatre, radio, intermedia arts and museum installations. Recently published is Eisler Studien, Aufsätze zum Thema, Kompositionen für den Film (Breitkopf and Härtel, 2008).

salmonb@newschool.edu

Michael Slowik is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. His research interests include the history of American cinema from the beginnings to the 1950s, film sound aesthetics and technology, the Hollywood Western, and film’s intersections with theatre, particularly vaudeville. His dissertation examines the Hollywood sound film score from the late 1920s to the early 1930s.

michael-slowik@uiowa.edu

Jada Watson holds her BA and MA in Music History from the University of Ottawa, and is completing a Masters in Information Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include issues of gender and geography in country music, and intersections of music and politics. She has presented papers on these topics at several national and international conferences and has an article forthcoming in Popular Music.

jada.watson@gmail.com

Ben Winters is a stipendiary lecturer in music at Christ Church, University of Oxford. He is the author of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Film Score Guide (Scarecrow Press, 2007), and has published articles on film music in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music and Letters, Brio, and Interdisciplinary Humanities, in addition to Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. Current film-related research projects include a study of concert performance in screened fiction.

benjwinters@gmail.com [End Page 132]

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