Jelena Gligorijević is an experienced scholar in the Cultural Study of Music with a strong international academic record spanning several European countries (Serbia, Britain, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Ireland), and with multiple research interests ranging from Max Cavalera’s World Metal projects, through to queer karaoke and live music performances during the COVID-19 crisis, to Brexit in Britain’s popular music discourses. Her primary field of expertise is, however, in issues of identity, power, and politics in Balkan popular music across the former Yugoslav region, notably Serbia, as exemplified by her doctoral dissertation “Contemporary Music Festivals as Micronational Spaces: Articulations of National Identity in Serbia’s Exit and Guča Trumpet Festivals” (University of Turku, 2019). A common denominator that ties all her previous studies together is ethnographic approach and research focus on the political in and through popular music-culture within the broadly conceived field of critical cultural studies.