Beverley Spracklen Author

Karl Spracklen is Professor of Music, Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is the editor of the journal Metal Music Studies, as well as International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure. He is interested in leisure and identity, and has published over a hundred papers, books, textbooks and book chapters in that broad area. His most recent work has been focused on music, alternativity, hegemony and transgression.  Beverley Spracklen is an independent scholar with an interest in goths and gothic sub-culture. She has researched and co-authored three publications with Karl Spracklen on goths and other alternative subcultures. Until recently she was a professional gothic bellydance teacher and performer, regularly appearing on the stage at Gothla.