Mike Alleyne Ph.D. is a freelance writer who previously served as a full professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University and is also a visiting professor at the Pop Akademie in Mannheim, Germany. He is the co-editor of the award-winning anthology Analyzing Recorded Music (2023), recognized by the Society for Music Theory (SMT) as an Outstanding Multi-Author Publication. In 2025, Alleyne published the award-nominated Black British Music in America 1967-2000: Atlantic Crossover (Routledge). He also co-edited The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song: Vivid Versions and Musical Subjectivities, with Lori Burns (2026).Recent and forthcoming publications include the article, “‘Businessmen, they drink my wine’: Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland Album” in the American Music Perspectives journal (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2024), and chapters in the anthologies, The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences (2025) and Interrogating Female Pop Star Documentaries (2026), both published by Bloomsbury.He also wrote The Essential Hendrix (2020) and The Encyclopedia of Reggae (2012), and was a co-editor of Prince and Popular Music (2020). Prof. Alleyne contributed liner notes to the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap 9-CD box set (2021).Born in London, England, he has lectured and presented conference papers internationally, publishing numerous book chapters and articles. His journal and periodical publications include Popular Music & Society, Rock Music Studies, the Journal on the Art of Record Production, the award-winning Grove Dictionary of American Music, Popular Music History, Ethnomusicology Forum, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Social and Economic Studies, Small Axe, and Billboard magazine. He has been quoted in The New York Times and is an Emeritus Editor of the online SAGE Business Case Series in Music Industry.In 2025, he was also a keynote speaker at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference in Paris, France.