Formerly Professor of English at the University of New South Wales, Australia, Bruce Johnson holds Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Glasgow and Turku, Finland, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales. He has long been active as a jazz musician, award-winning broadcaster and record producer. As government advisor on music policy, his work included the legislation-changing report Vanishing Acts on live music, co-authored with Shane Homan, while he was also the prime mover in establishing the government-funded Australian Jazz Archive. His academic publications number several hundred, including over a dozen books, among the most recent of which is the award-winning Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation.