Veronika Muchitsch

In my research, I combine theoretical and methodological tools from music, gender, and media studies to analyze how music and subjectivity are mediated in 21st-century music cultures.

I've recently written about Anohni's transfeminine voice, "genrefluid" Spotify playlists, and TikTok's affective music cultures.

In 2024, I teach in Musiken i det populära and Current perspectives in popular music studies at Uppsala University.

Lecturer in Gender Studies, Södertörn University (since 2024)

Affiliated researcher in Musicology, Uppsala University (since 2024)

Postdoctoral researcher in Gender Studies and Musicology at Södertörn University and University of Oslo (2021-2024)

PhD in Musicology, Uppsala University (2020)

MA in Musicology, University of Graz, Austria (2015)

In my postdoctoral research at Södertörn University and the University of Oslo (Swedish Research Council, 2021-2024), I studied how music and subjectivities are mediated in algorithmic music cultures. In resulting publications, I discuss "genrefluid" Spotify playlists, constructions of genre and identity, and TikTok's affective music cultures.

In my doctoral thesis, Vocal Figurations (2020), I theorized how voices in 21st century pop music are gendered through multiply mediated processes of singing and listening.

In an article resulting from this research, in which I study transfeminine voice in contemporary popular music through a study of singer and songwriter Anohni was awarded the IASPM Norden Early Career Scholar Award 2024.

Episode of radio show

Muchitsch, V. and Plath, M. (2023). Popular music cultures of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Music Talkshow. Radio Nova.