Shara Rambarran, author of Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era (Bloomsbury),  is a musicologist and senior lecturer in music, business and media at the University of Brighton, UK. Shara’s research interests include music innovation, digital cultures, technology, remixology, music production, music genres, audio-visual aesthetics, music/creative industries, music education, and law.  She is the co-editor of  The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education,  DIVA: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop (Bloomsbury), and  The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies (Intellect), and is involved with the Art of Record Production conferences and journal. Shara is also Bloomsbury’s Music and Sound’s biographer, and musicologist for Spotify’s award-winning Decode music podcast.