Recorded Music
Event time: Wednesday 14:15-15:45
Instructor: Emília Barna
"The cultural history of recorded music from the phonograph to mp3s and streaming"
This course offers an introduction into the technological and cultural history of recorded music, from the invention of the phonograph (and before) to mp3s, file-sharing and streaming. Our perspective draws on the fields of popular music studies, cultural studies, as well as the sociology of cultural production and consumption. Besides the technological history of sound recording, we will also look at the history and logic of the music industry, primary areas of sound archiving and collecting, and further cultural use relating to recorded music. We pay particular attention to avant-garde/experimental music that makes use of recorded music; digital pop music and DJ culture; as well as copyright debates relating to sampling and remixing.
Dr. Emília Barna is a 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. From 2017, she has been a member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet."