Krister Malm is Director of Musikmuseet in Stockholm, and Associate Professor of Musicology at Gothenburg University. Roger Wallis is BBC Correspondent in Sweden. Their pioneering research into the workings of the music industry was first published in the book Big Sounds from Small Peoples (Constable, 1984). Roger Wallis is the co-author, with Stanley Baran, of The Known World of Broadcast News (Routledge, 1990), an analysis of the broadcast news industry.