David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media, Music and Culture at the University of Leeds, UK.   Kate Oakley is Professor of Cultural Policy at the University of Leeds, UK.   David Lee is Lecturer in Cultural Industries and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK.   Melissa Nisbett is Senior Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management at King's College London, UK.

“This is a very valuable book, in part as it fills a huge gap in the research. … this book covers a huge territory as it is, and given its achievement in presenting a series of complex situations with admirable clarity, it should become a core text on any reading list relating to UK culture and politics since Thatcher.” (Jonathan Vickery, Democratic Audit UK, democraticaudit.com, January, 2017)