Sheila Whiteley

Professor Sheila Whiteley (2nd February 1941 - 6th June 2015) was feminist musicologist, writer, lecturer and researcher into issues of identify and subjectivity. Sheila was an emeritus professor at Salford University and held Britain’s first chair of popular music. She later became general secretary of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music as well as being a visiting professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, the University of Brighton, Southampton Solent University and the Bader International Study Centre of Queen’s University, Ontario, at Herstmonceux, East Sussex. She also wrote three books as well as editing many others. The Space Between the Notes (1992), Sexing the Groove (1997), and Women and Popular Music (2000). She also contributed to more than 30 scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as women in Britpop, Mick Jagger and Dad’s Army. http://www.sheilawhiteley.co.uk/Sheila_Whiteley/Home.html