About the Authors

Hugh Maloney is a musicologist and pedagogue based in Dresden, Germany. He achieved his bachelor's degree in music at the University of Nottingham and his master's in composition at the University of Sheffield, before he was awarded a doctorate in musicology by the University of Nottingham in 2023. His doctoral dissertation, written on the subject of Ennio Morricone's film music in the western genre, has been adapted into a book that is scheduled to be published in 2026 by Bloomsbury Academic. He is currently working on a number of projects pertaining to Morricone's output for the cinema and concert hall.Wouter Capitain is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Göttingen. He investigates how music is used in twentieth-century popular culture to construct human-animal distinctions. He previously taught at the University of Amsterdam (2014–2016) and Utrecht University (2016–2023). In 2021, he defended his doctoral dissertation on Edward Said and the intersections of music and postcolonialism. He edited Said's posthumous book Said on Opera for Columbia University Press (2024) and is writing a monograph on Said's music-related work for Bloomsbury. His articles have appeared in Journal of Musicological Research, Popular Music and Society, and Rock Music Studies.David Melbye earned his doctorate in cinema and television from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. He has published two monographs, Irony in The Twilight Zone and Landscape Allegory in Cinema, as well as the edited volume Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory. Melbye has also produced music for popular television shows including Friday Night Lights, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and One Life to Live. He was recently functioning as a UK Research and Innovation / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Media, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Huddersfield.