Veronika Muchitsch
Researcher at Department of Musicology
- E-mail:
- veronika.muchitsch@musik.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H
- Postal address:
- Box 633
751 26 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-1505-4357
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Short presentation
My research is situated at the crossing of feminist theory, musicology, and sound studies and examines the mediation of music, meaning, and subjectivity in the technologically mediated music cultures of the 21st century.
I've recently written about Anohni's transfeminine voice, "genrefluid" Spotify playlists, and TikTok's affective music cultures.
In 2025, I teach in Musiken i det populära and Analysing music without a score at Uppsala University.
Keywords
- algorithmic technologies
- critical new materialism
- digital media
- feminist theory
- gender
- musicology
- popular music
- sound studies
- voice
Biography
Researcher in Musicology, Uppsala University (since 2025)
Lecturer in Gender Studies, Södertörn University (2024-2025)
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)
Research
In my research, I am primarily drawing on feminist theorisation in critical new materialism, poststructuralism, and science and technology studies. I combine methodological tools from musicology and popular music, media, and gender studies.
My current research funded by the Swedish Research Council (2025-2028) examines the mediation of mental health in music-technological practices through a study of girls*’ online music cultures on TikTok. The project studies young people’s experiences of their technologically and musically mediated mental health practices online and seeks to theorise how these practices are shaped by the roles of and relationships between human, sonic, and sociotechnical processes on algorithmic music and media platforms.
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. An article that develops a thesis chapter, 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.
Media
Episode of radio show
Muchitsch, V. and Plath, M. (2023). Popular music cultures of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Music Talkshow. Radio Nova.
Publications
Recent publications
- Vocal Figurations (2020)
- Neoliberal Sounds? The Politics of Beyoncé’s Voice on “Run The World (Girls)” (2016)