Melanie Schiller is assistant professor of media studies and popular music at the dept. for Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), and the author of Soundtracking Germany – Popular Music and National Identity (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018 and 2020). Schiller is on the executive board and national representative of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Benelux branch, and member of the academic advisory committee of the German Society for Popular Music Studies (GfPM). She has published widely on German popular music, amongst others in Popular Music and Society (2014) and The European Journal for Cultural Studies (2018). Her current research focuses on popular music and populism in Europe and Sweden in particular, in the international research project «Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe» (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, 2019–2022).