Nichole Rustin-Paschal Author & Editor

Nicholas Gebhardt is Professor of Jazz and Popular Music Studies at Birmingham City University and Director of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. His work focuses on jazz and popular music in American culture, and his publications include Going For Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology and Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929.

Nichole Rustin-Paschal earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from New York University. She is the author of The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr. and co-editor with Sherrie Tucker of Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies.

Tony Whyton is Professor of Jazz Studies at Birmingham City University and author of Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition and Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album. As an editor, Whyton has worked as the co-editor of the Jazz Research Journal since 2004 and he currently co-edits theRoutledge series ‘Transnational Studies in Jazz’.