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Róza Emília Barna
Associate Professor
⌂ 1111 Budapest, Egry J. u. 1. E.713 ☎ +36 1 463-2060 ✉ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Sociologist and popular music researcher. She completed a Popular Music Studies PhD programme in 2011 at the University of Liverpool School of Music. The title of her doctoral thesis was "Online and Offline Rock Music Networks: A case study on Liverpool, 2007-2009." Her main research areas include the sociology of popular music, the study of the relationship between music scenes or genres and technology, the digital music industries, and the gender aspects of popular music. With Tamás Tófalvy, she recently co-edited the book Made in Hungary: Studies in Popular Music (2017, Routledge). Outside of BME, she also teaches as part of the “University of Music” programme of the University of Pécs. She is Advisory Board Member of IASPM@Journal and member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) since 2005. Between 2013 and 2017, she was Chair of IASPM Hungary, and since 2012, editor of Zenei Hálózatok Folyóirat (Music Networks Journal). From 2017, she has also been a member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet."
Qualifications

2011

PhD - Popular Music Studies (full-time), University of Liverpool Institute of Popular Music

2007

Sociology MA - University of Szeged

2005

English Studies and Teacher of English as a Foreign Language MA - University of Szeged
Academic and professional milestones

2011

Doctoral dissertation (Online and Offline Rock Music Networks: A case study on Liverpool, 2007-2009)
Teaching
  Szubkulturális gazdaságok, kreatív iparágak (MA)
  Digitális zeneipar (MA)
  Népszerű kultúra, fogyasztás, identitás (MA)
  Kultúraszociológia/Sociology of Culture (elective)
  A populáris zene/Popular Music (elective)
  Rögzített zene/Recorded Music (elective)

2016 –

Leader of Cultural Spaces MA specialisation at BME

2013 –

Leader of Communication and Media Studies MA at BME

2013 –

Leader of Cultural Industries MA specialisation at BME

2012 –

Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Communication, BME

2012 –

Guest lecturer at the "University of Music" (Zenélő Egyetem) programme of the University of Pécs. Taught courses: British Pop Icons (2014); So 90’s – Grunge in the US and Britpop in the UK (2015); Pop Music and Feminism – Women in Popular Music (2017); Brexit and Britpop (2019); Musical Creation and Society (2021)

2013 – 2014

Guest lecturer at music management schools Zeneipari Hivatal and Majdnem Híres Rocksuli

2011 – 2012

Contracted lecturer at the University of Szeged 

2008

Teaching Assistant at the University of Liverpool School of Music
Research

2019 – 2022

Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe. Volkswagen Stiftung. Partners: Universität Oldenburg (Germany), Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (Italy), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The Netherlands), Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz (Austria)

2018 – 2022

Creative Labour in the Hungarian Music Industry (NKFIH FK_18)

2014 – 2016

Technology, gender and underground music scenes in Hungary

2013

Cultural Intermediation – Connecting Communities in the Creative Urban Economy. A cross-Research Council research programme in the UK. Arts and Humanities Research Council
2012 – 2013 Innovative Media and Music Heritage Impacting Vocational Education. A Leonardo Partnership Project. Partners: Birmingham City University School of Media; Budapest University of Technology and Economics Centre of Media Education and Research; Dublin Contemporary Music Center; Newthinking Communications GmbH, Berlin; New Music Labs, Groningen; Foundation Modern Science and Education, Dobrich; Tampere College

2012 – 2013

BLAT. A student project exploring subcultural economies and the building of online creative networks led by Gábor Vályi and Róza Emília Barna. The project involved a study trip to Birmingham funded by Campus Hungary.

2007 – 2011

Online and offline rock music networks: a case study on Liverpool, 2007-2009 (PhD research)
Conferences, workshops organised

2022

Kultúra a digitális forradalom idején 4.: Popkultúra és politika (Culture during the time of the digital revolution 4: Pop culture and politics). Budapest, 17–18 February 2021. Organisers: Department of Sociology and Communication, BME and Department of Media and Communication, ELTE

2020

Gender and Creativity in Music Worlds: MusicaFemina International Symposium Budapest. CEU, 8-9 January 2020.

2017

Communicating Music Scenes: Networks, Power, Technology. Budapest, 19-20 May 2017. Organisers: Róza Emília Barna, Ádám Ignácz and Tamás Tófalvy. Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, IASPM Hungary and BME Department of Sociology and Communication. 

2013 –

Music Networks Seminar series

2007 – 2008

Research seminar series, University of Liverpool School of Music
Membership in professional organisations

2017 –

Member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet"

2012 –

2012 –Founding editor of Zenei Hálózatok Folyóirat (Music Networks Journal), the first Hungarian language academic journal dedicated to the study of popular music

2012 –

Advisory board member of IASPM@Journal

2010 –

Member of IASPM Hungary. Treasurer between 2010-2013. Chair between 2013-2017.

2005 –

Member of International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). Treasurer between 2015-2017.
Other

2013 – 2015

Regular guest of the Kultúrfitnesz Szabadegyetem programme of MR2 Petőfi Rádió. Her radio lecture series: British Indie; The Beatles; The Rolling Stones; David Bowie.

2014 – 2016

Volunteer at Kék Pont, and from 2015 Alternatíva Alapítvány. Activities: low-threshold harm reduction social work among intravenous drug users and prostituted women in the 8th district in Budapest.

2014 – 2015

Vice-Chair of Nőkért Egyesület (Association For Women)
Office hours
Monday 14:00-16:00
Courses
Recorded Music
Sociology of Culture
Kreatív iparágak, szubkulturális gazdaságok
Research areas, thesis supervision
populáriszene-kutatás: a zenei közösségek szociológiája; zenei színterek, műjok és az internet; populáris zene és város/lokalitás; zene és technológia; zene és gender
zeneipari tanulmányok: digitális zeneipar
kulturális iparágak, kultúrakutatás
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