Tom Attah is Associate Professor of Popular Music Performance at Leeds Arts University, UK. He has published many chapters and journal articles on Popular Music and Popular Culture, and has produced public-facing mainstream broadcast work on blues music for the BBC. As a creative musician, he has toured internationally and has composed original works for public projects. He is chair of the Popular Music Study group of the Royal Musical Association. Recent published chapters include work on Prince (Bloomsbury, 2020), Robert Johnson (2022), Little Richard (Bloomsbury, 2022), and has co-edited a text on popular music narratives (2019).