Dr Jodie Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at Qantm Creative Media Institute, Brisbane, Australia. Jodie is the author of 'Playing it Queer: Popular Music, Identity and Queer World-making' (Peter Lang, 2012) and co-author of the following scholarly volumes: 'Redefining Mainstream Popular Music' (Routledge, 2013); 'The Festivalisation of Culture' (Ashgate, 2014); and guest editor of a special edition of Continuum on ‘erotic screen and sound’ (fDecember 2012). Additionally, Jodie has authored numerous scholarly articles on popular music and sexuality, queer cultural practices and ethnographic methods.