Popular Music Cultures of the 20th and 21st Centuries

In this episode of The Music Talkshow, our music researchers Veronika Muchitsch and Mirjana Plath are chatting about popular music cultures of the 20th and 21st centuries. 

We’re discussing pride music, technology, and stylistic changes through time. On top of fascinating research, you can enjoy music from 1874 to 2023. Even football fans get their money's worth.

What is The Music Talkshow?

“Music Talkshow” is a musicology dissemination show by our local University of Oslo early career music and sound researchers – PhD’s and postdocs. How do we communicate our research to the “outside” world? How do we maintain our relevance to society as academics? People who write about music, but not the music itself? In other words, how does our work relate to the real world, and how does the real-world manifests in our work?

In this show, we tackle these unanswerable questions with a light-hearted approach: through informal conversations, sound and music examples, and perhaps some experiments. We hope to bridge the gap between those who wonder about music casually and those who do that professionally – from prospective students to lifelong music fans, fidelity nerds, and helpless cheesy romantics. By doing so, we will leave our own comfort zones to show the diversity of the academic community to showcase new voices and sounds, encourage participation, and take an alternative turn on the University.