Phil Dodds is an interdisciplinary researcher based in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and was a post-doctoral research fellow on the project Sonic Sense of Place in the Division of Musicology at Lund University. He is currently working on the Swedish Research Council-funded project Musical Colonization: Scots and Swedes in Southern Africa, 1770–1850 and his next book, due out with Palgrave in 2023, is entitled Music and the Cultural Production of Scale.