Troubling Inheritances

Sara Cohen is Professor at the University of Liverpool, UK, where she holds the James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music and is Director of the Institute of Popular Music. She is author of Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture (2007) and Rock Culture in Liverpool (1991), co-author of Liverpool's Musical Landscapes (2018) and Harmonious Relations (1994), and co-editor of Sites of Popular Music Heritage (2014).

Line Grenier is Associate Professor at the Departement de Communication at Universite de Montreal, Canada, where she teaches predominantly in the areas of media theory, memory and media, and popular culture. More recently, in the context of the research partnership ACT (Ageing Communication Technology) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and of which she is one of the co-founders, her research focuses on intersections of ageing and music. Her current project focuses on Deaf cultures of ageing and Deaf musics.

Ros Jennings is Professor in Cultural Studies, Director of the Centre for Women Ageing and Media (WAM) and Head of Postgraduate Research at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She is a founding member of the European Network in Ageing Studies (ENAS), author of the WAM Manifesto (2012), and contributor to the UK Charter against Ageism and Sexism in the Media. She is co-editor with Abigail Gardner of Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music (2012) and leader of the annual WAM International Summer School.