Twentieth-Century Music in the West: An Introduction

Tom Perchard's work centres on the history and historiography of jazz and popular music. He is the author of After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France (2015) and Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture (2006). He is the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project on popular music in the postwar British home.

Stephen Graham is the author of Sounds of the Underground: A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music (2016). He has written articles on late style, fringe music writing and popular modernism. He is working on a book about noise music.

Tim Rutherford-Johnson is a contemporary music journalist and musicologist. He is the author of Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989 (2017) and The Music of Liza Lim (forthcoming), and editor of the sixth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Music (2012).

Holly Rogers is a scholar of experimental audiovisual culture, and is author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music (2013). She has edited books on documentary film sound, experimental film soundtracks, transmedia, cybermedia and music video, and edits a book series for Bloomsbury on music and media, and the journal Sonic Scope.