CONTRIBUTORS

Notes on the contributors to Chapter&Verse

Patrick Dailly studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, before playing keyboards with soul star Major Lance. He later founded the Popular Music Studies BA at Bretton Hall College, West Yorkshire. He now teaches music in Leiden in the Netherlands

Simon Frith is Professor of Film and Media at the University of Stirling in the UK. He was previously Professor of English Studies at Strathclyde University where he taught an informal seminar on rock writing to Andrew O'Hagan among others.

Simon Warner teaches popular music at the University of Leeds in the UK and is founding editor of Chapter&Verse. A book on the relationship between the Beat Generation and rock culture is in preparation for Continuum Press.

Patrick Webster teaches English in the School of Continuing Education at the University of Leeds in the UK. He has a special interest in literary interpretations of Bob Dylan and recently completed an MPhil reflecting on this area.

Sheila Whiteley is Chair of Popular Music at the University of Salford in the UK and Publications Officer for IASPM, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Recent publications include Too Much Too Young: Popular Music, Age and Gender (Routledge, 2003).