Nessa Johnston is Lecturer in Screen Studies and Digital Media at the University of Liverpool, UK and author of The Commitments: Youth, Music and Authenticity in 1990s Ireland (2021). Her research is in sound and music in screen media, cult cinema, media technologies, and media industries. She is co-investigator on the Leverhulme funded research project 'Anonymous Creativity: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s' and a 2020 Fellow of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas (Austin).

Jamie Sexton is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University, UK with research interests in music and media, and cult cinema. Recent publications include Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Scenes (2022).

Elodie A. Roy is a media and material culture theorist with a specialism in the history of recorded sound. Her publications include Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove (2015) and Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter (2023).