Kitty Ross Editor

Brett Lashua is Lecturer, Sociology of the Media and Education, University College London Karl Spracklen is a professor of sociology of leisure and culture at Leeds Beckett University, and has written extensively on leisure, subcultures, music, sport and tourism. He was the first principal editor of Metal Music Studies. His latest book is Metal Music and the Re-Imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation. Contact: Leeds School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, Portland 402, City Campus, Leeds, LS1 3HE, UK. Kitty Ross is Curator of Leeds History and Social History, Leeds Museums and Galleries.  Paul Thompson is a recording engineer and reader at Leeds Beckett University in the School of the Arts, Leeds. Paul’s research engages with record production, audio education, popular music learning practices, creativity and cultural production in popular music. His book Creativity in the Recording Studio: Alternative Takes was published in 2019. Contact: Leeds Beckett University, Caedmon 221, Headingley Campus, Leeds, LS6 3QS, UK.