Dr. Jon Stewart is Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Music Business and MA Popular Music Practice at BIMM Institute, Brighton. He is also the guitarist for platinum-selling Britpop band Sleeper and, since 2019, semi-legendary indie band The Wedding Present.
Other session credits include K D Lang and Mel C from Spice Girls. He has published work in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections of academic essays on subjects such as anti-war and pro-war protest music, arena concerts, Brian Eno and Devo, coffee and popular music, memory and memoir, Robert Johnson, and YouTube.
Jon’s current research interests focus on popular music and social psychology.
