Committee

James Deaville (Carleton University)

James Deaville is Professor in the Music Program of the School for Studies in Art & Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa. He edited Music in Television (Routledge, 2010) and co-edited with Christina Baade Music and the Broadcast Experience (Oxford, 2016). Regarding music and media, he has published articles in American Music (2019), Journal of Sonic Studies (2012), and Echo (2005) and has contributed chapters to Routledge books on Twin Peaks (2021) and Star Trek (2022) and to collections Music in the Post-9/11 World (2007), Music, Politics, and Violence (2012), and Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising (co-edited with Ron Rodman and Siu-Lan Tan, 2021). He is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Music and Television with Jessica Getman and Ron Rodman (2023). He has spoken and published on library music with regard to its use in trailers.

Júlia Durand (NOVA University of Lisbon)

Júlia Durand is a musicology PhD candidate at the NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is a member of the Center of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM). In addition to several papers on music and audiovisuals presented at international conferences such as Music and the Moving Image, her research has been published as chapters in edited volumes and in the journals Music, Sound and the Moving Image and Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia. Her PhD is focuses on the production and use of library music in online videos.

Toby Huelin (University of Leeds)

Toby Huelin is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds investigating the use of library music in contemporary television. His research is funded by the AHRC via the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH). Toby's publications include peer-reviewed journal articles on library and television music for Music and the Moving Image and Critical Studies in Television, alongside chapters in several forthcoming edited volumes. Toby is also a media composer: his music features in the Emmy Award–winning series United Shades of America (CNN), the documentary Subnormal: A British Scandal (BBC One), and an advertising campaign for internet brand Honey. His library music is published worldwide by major labels including Universal and Warner Chappell.

Melissa Morton (University of Edinburgh)

Melissa Morton is a final-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, researching the role of music and sound in UK television idents—the audiovisual logos that appear between the programmes. Combining musical analysis with practitioner interviews, her PhD aims to highlight the valuable role of musical creativity in the production of these brief and evanescent texts. She has presented papers at several conferences including Music and the Moving Image (2022) and Sound on Screen (2021) and has written articles published in Critical Studies in Television and Flow Journal.