Ragnhild Brøvig

Ragnhild Brøvig

Professor, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo

MishMash role: Member , Work Package Leader · WP5

I am Professor of Popular Music Studies at the University of Oslo. My research combines popular music analysis with cultural studies and media theory, with particular emphasis on music production, sound, rhythm, sampling, and music technologies. I am involved in the Norwegian research centres MishMash – Centre for AI and Creativity; RITMO – Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion; and CreaTeME – Creative use of Technologies in Music Education. I am a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research in Music and its Technologies at the University of Huddersfield and previously held an adjunct professorship at the University of Agder. I have also been a visiting scholar at University of Edinburgh, Columbia University, and American University. I was involved in the founding of SPMR (Society for Music Production Research), where I currently serve as assistant editor of its journal. My research has focused on how production technologies leave audible traces in music through fragmentation, glitches, samples, manipulated voices, and other forms of technologically mediated sound. I have been particularly interested in remix culture, platform governance, content moderation, copyright, and authorship – an interest that informed the Research Council of Norway funded project MASHED: Mashup Music, Copyright, and Platform Regulation, which I led from 2018–2021. I have also worked extensively on rhythm, timing, and sound through the RCN-funded projects TIME: Timing and Sound in Musical Microrhythm (Toppforsk; 2016–2023), and Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (FRIPRO; 2004–2010), both led by Anne Danielsen. More recently, my research has expanded to questions related to AI and the sustainability of music cultures and industries. I am the author of the monographs Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown (2023) and Digital Signatures: The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound (with Anne Danielsen, 2016), both published by MIT Press. I am currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Sampling (with A. Danielsen, P. Harkins, and N. Prior; forthcoming 2027). My research has appeared in journals including Popular Music, New Media & Society, Popular Music & Society, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online, Music Perception, Organised Sound, and The Journal of Music Production Research. I have supervised numerous Master’s students, 6 PhD candidates, and 6 postdoctoral researchers, including Marie Skłodowska-Curie-funded postdoctoral research (ERC). I have also been engaged in research training and career development initiatives at the University of Oslo. My teaching covers popular music studies, music technologies and their musical and cultural impact, sound- and groove-based music analysis, music and media, and research methodology. Before becoming Professor at the University of Oslo in 2021, I completed my PhD there in 2013 and was hired as Associate Professor in 2015 after a short postdoctoral period. Alongside my academic work, I remain engaged in music production and other forms of artistic practice. Please visit my personal research website at www.ragnhildbrovig.com

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  1. Monograph, 2023

    Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown

    Ragnhild Brøvig

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