Richard Elliott is Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Sussex, UK. His current research focuses on the representations of time, age and experience in popular music as well as the relationship between music and materiality. He is the author of the books "Fado and the Place of Longing" (2010) and "Nina Simone" (2013) and of articles exploring consciousness, memory, nostalgia, place and space, affect, technology and the relationship between popular music and literature.