ABSTRACT
MARCUS BREEN is teaching popular music in the English and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Melbourne. He is also working as a consultant on Multimedia and Broadband Services for the Victorian Department of Business and Employment in the Victorian Government… JOHN DOCKER is a research fellow at the University of Technology in Sydney. He is best known for his books Critical Condition, The Nervous Nineties and Postmodernism and Popular Culture… JOHN FISKE is Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is the author of numerous books on media theory and popular culture. His most recent book, Media Matters, was published in 1994 by the University of Minnesota… DIANA GEORGE is an associate professor in the Humanities Department at Michigan Technological University. Her work on visual representation has appeared in such journals as PostScript, Reader and The Journal of Film and Video… KEVIN GLYNN recently completed his Ph.D. in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His work has appeared in Wide Angle and Communication Studies. He is currently writing a book on the subject of ‘tabloid television’… RICHARD MIDDLETON is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Open University in Great Britain. He is the author of Pop Music and the Blues (1972) and Studying Popular Music (1990), and has been a co-editor of the journal Popular Music since its founding in 1981… SUSAN SANDERS is a Ph.D. candidate in Michigan Technological University’s Humanities Department. She has written on issues of power and subjectivity in composition studies… STUART TANNOCK is a graduate student in the Department of Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University.
