Nicholas Gebhardt is Professor of Jazz and Popular Music Studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University. His research covers a range of topics, including jazz and popular music cultures, improvised music, sound studies, mass entertainment, the music industries, philosophies of music and film studies. His publications include Going for Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology and Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929. He is the co-editor of This Is Our Music! The Cultural Politics of Jazz Collectives and The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies. He also co-edits the Routledge book series Transnational Studies in Jazz, the Intellect book series New Directions in Media and Cultural Research, and the open access popular music journal Riffs.
