Ioannis Tsioulakis is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. In the past he has lectured at University College Cork and University College Dublin on topics including ethnomusicology, popular music and politics, Mediterranean music, and ethnographic research methods. His research focuses on cosmopolitan aspirations among local music practitioners, the concept of music professionalism, and the impact of crisis on music and politics in Greece. Ioannis is currently Associate Editor of the Irish Journal of Anthropology. He is also a professional pianist, composer, and arranger who has performed and recorded extensively within the Greek popular music scene.

Elina Hytönen-Ng a cultural researcher and an ethnomusicologist, is a university researcher at the University of Eastern Finland. She has been studying the contemporary British jazz scene and musicians' flow experiences. She received her PhD in 2010, and since then has been an academic visitor at the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and a visiting research fellow at King's College London.