Jeff Smith is a Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also is the author of The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music (1998, Columbia University Press). His most recent publication is an essay on music in The Routledge Companion on Philosophy and Film (2008) edited by Paisley Livingston and Carl Plantinga.

David Neumeyer (neumeyer@mail.utexas.edu) is Leslie Waggener Professor in the College of Fine Arts and Professor of Music Theory in the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, The University of Texas at Austin. He co-edited Music in Cinema (Wesleyan, 2000) with James Buhler and Caryl Flinn. Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History, an undergraduate textbook on music and film sound, co-written with James Buhler and Robert Deemer, is in production at Oxford University Press and is expected to appear in early spring 2009. Website: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~neumeyer.

William Gibbons (wgibbons@email.unc.edu) is a Ph.D. Candidate in musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where is he is writing a dissertation entitled "Eighteenth-Century Opera and the Construction of National Identity in France, 1875–1918." His research focuses on the social and cultural uses of "classical" music, musical narrative, and music in interactive media. His articles in have appeared in Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, Current Musicology, and American Music. He has taught courses on Music and Video Games at UNC.