Catherine Strong Editor & Author

Sarah Baker is Professor of Cultural Sociology at Griffith University, Australia. Her books include Community Custodians of Popular Music’s Past: A DIY Approach to Heritage (2017) and Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-yourself, Do-it-together (2015).

Catherine Strong is a Senior Lecturer in the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. Among her publications are Grunge: Popular Music and Memory (2011), and Death and the Rock Star (2015, edited with Barbara Lebrun). Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. She is currently Chair of IASPM-ANZ and co-editor of Popular Music History journal.

Lauren Istvandity is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queensland Conservatorium at Griffith University. She has expertise in the fields of music heritage and memory studies, and is currently writing a monograph titled The Lifetime Soundtrack: Music and Autobiographical Memory.

Zelmarie Cantillon is an Adjunct Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University, Australia. She has contributed book chapters to edited collections including Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives (2015) and New and Emerging Challenges to Heritage and Well-being (forthcoming), and published articles in Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (2015) and Australian Feminist Studies (2017). Her current research focuses on spatiality, tourism and heritage.