ANDY BENNETT is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey. He is author of Popular Music and Youth Culture (Palgrave, 2000) and co-editor of Guitar Cultures (Berg, 2001). He is Chair of the UK and Ireland branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and co-convenor of the British Sociological Association Youth Study Group.

KEITH KAHN- HARRIS received his doctorate from Goldsmith College on the global Extreme Metal music scene. He has been a Fellow at the Mandel School for Advanced Educational Leadership, Jerusalem and a visiting scholar at Monash University Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Melbourne. He currently works as an Associate Lecturer for the Open University and as an independent research consultant, specialising in the field of Jewish communal and educational development.