Mark Duffett is a Gales-listed academic author, known for two decades of research in popular music studies and fan studies. He is writer of Understanding Fandom (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Counting Down Elvis (2018), editor of Popular Music Fandom (2015), Fan Identities and Practices in Context (2018), and editor or co-editor of several special edition journals for Popular Music and Society, Rock Music Studies, and the IASPM journal.

Beate Peter is Senior Lecturer in German at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. As a member of the Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences at MMU, she is currently leading a team of researchers that investigate the role that music (acid house) played in shaping the social, political, and cultural landscape in Britain. She is also a convener of Manchester's Music and Sonic Studies research network. Her research interests focus on music and identity, in particular the role of affect and musical memories.