Alexandra Wilson is a prize-winning musicologist, cultural historian and arts writer. She comments regularly on cultural matters for national newspapers, magazines and BBC radio, and writes essays for major arts organisations. Her books include Puccini's La bohème, Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain and, most recently, Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British, which traces changing cultural attitudes in Britain from 1920 to today. Formerly Professor of Music and Cultural History at Oxford Brookes University, she is now a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford.