About the Author

The Authors: Ulf Lindberg received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Lund University. A former Swedish Lecturer at the Department of Scandinavian Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, he is presently Lecturer at the Department of Teacher Education at Malmoe University in Sweden. Gestur Gudmundsson received his Ph.D. in sociology from The University of Copenhagen. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Sociology, The Danish University of Education. His books include Let's Rock This Town and Rokksaga Islands (The History of Icelandic Rock) and two books on the Nordic model. Morten Michelsen received his Ph.D. in musicology from The University of Copenhagen. He is Associate Professor of Popular Music at the University of Copenhagen and leader of a research project on Danish rock culture from the 1950s to the 1980s. His dissertation examined language and sound in the analysis of rock music. Hans Weisethaunet received his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from The University of Oslo. He is Associate Professor at the Grieg Academy, the University of Bergen, Norway. His dissertation, The Performance of Everyday Life: The Gaine of Nepal, is based on anthropological research in Nepal.