Johannes Brusila is professor of musicology at Åbo Akademi University and director of the research project 'The impact of digitalization on minority music: Finland-Swedish music culture as a case study'. He has also worked as freelance journalist and project researcher at YLE and as director of the Sibelius Museum. Among his research interests are the cultural study of music, ethnomusicology and the music industry. During the last fifteen years, one of his primary research subjects has been the music culture of the Swedish-speaking population of Finland, and he has published several articles and co-edited a book on the subject.

Bruce Johnson is adjunct professor of communications at the University of Technology, Sydney, visiting professor of music at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and docent and visiting professor of cultural history at the University of Turku.

John Richardson is professor and chair of musicology at the University of Turku in Finland.

Bruce Johnson is adjunct professor of communications at the University of Technology, Sydney, visiting professor of music at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and docent and visiting professor of cultural history at the University of Turku.

Kari Kallioniemi is a researcher, adjunct professor and the leader of the 'Thatcherism, Popular Culture and the 1980s' project at the Cultural History department, University of Turku. His research interests focus on the relationships between different notions of nationality, neo-right and popular culture. His recent book on this subject is Englishness, Pop and Post-War Britain (Intellect, 2016). His current project deals with the themes of fascination with fascism in popular culture.