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Research subject Popular Music

Important genres studied in popular music research are jazz, rock and pop. But the term can be interpreted in different ways - stylistically, socially, culturally. Popular music is influenced by the music industry, technologies and modern media.

Related research subject

Musicology

Researchers

Toivo Burlin

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

08-16 19 15

toivo.burlin@music.su.se

Berk Sirman

PhD student

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

berk.sirman@music.su.se

Nicole Vickers

PhD student

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

a portrait of Nicole Vickers with a blurred background.

nicole.vickers@music.su.se

Research group

Forum Modernism

Forum Modernism at Stockholm University is an association for researchers whose work in some way concerns modernism, both through studies of its various mainstream and marginalized expressions, and through critical examinations of the concept as such.

Courses and programmes

Doctoral studies

The postgraduate studies in Musicology consists of four years of fulltime studies with employment. As a PhD student you will be contributing to the research from Stockholm University and to the research environment at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics. The doctoral studies include writing an independent thesis.

Departments and centres

The research activities takes place at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics.

Department of Culture and Aesthetics