Ann Werner
Professor at Department of Musicology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 72 79
- E-mail:
- ann.werner@musik.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H
- Postal address:
- Box 633
751 26 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-2540-8497
Short presentation
Ann Werner is professor in musicology at Uppsala University specialising in popular music, gender, and media. She holds the title of Associate Professor (docent) in Gender studies at Södertörn University. In 2025 Ann conducts research in two externally funded projects: about nation and gender in European higher classical music education and culture of silence in Swedish performing arts. Ann teaches courses on popular music, ethnomusicology, and gender. She is the director of studies.
Keywords
- popular music
- gender
- media
- streaming music
- higher music education
- #MeToo
- the Swedish performing arts
- equality in the music industry
Media
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Publications
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The Mediation of Genre, Identity, and Difference in Contemporary (Popular) Music Streaming
Part of Twentieth Century Music, p. 302-328, 2024
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Silence and Affect in the Swedish Performing Arts After #MeToo
Part of Nordic Theatre Studies, p. 106-126, 2024
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Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
Organizing music, organizing gender: Algorithmic culture and Spotify recommendations
Part of Popular Communication, p. 78-90, 2020
Broadening research in gender and music practice
Part of Popular Music, p. 636-651, 2020
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What does gender have to do with music, anyway?: Mapping the relation between music and gender
Part of Per Musi, p. 1-11, 2019
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Streaming Music: Practices, Media, Cultures
Routledge, 2017
Girls consuming music at home: gender and the exchange of music trough new media
Part of European Journal of Cultural Studies, p. 269-284, 2009
Recent publications
Power and responsibility in higher music education: Issues of bullying and harassment
Part of Trio, p. 7-22, 2025
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Marketing Conservatoire Education: The Employable White Musicians of European Classical Music
Part of Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World, p. 26-37, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
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The Mediation of Genre, Identity, and Difference in Contemporary (Popular) Music Streaming
Part of Twentieth Century Music, p. 302-328, 2024
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Silence and Affect in the Swedish Performing Arts After #MeToo
Part of Nordic Theatre Studies, p. 106-126, 2024
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Gender in higher music education
Part of Music, Power Relations, and Beyond, p. 75-83, Musikene - School of Music of the Basque Country, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Power and responsibility in higher music education: Issues of bullying and harassment
Part of Trio, p. 7-22, 2025
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The Mediation of Genre, Identity, and Difference in Contemporary (Popular) Music Streaming
Part of Twentieth Century Music, p. 302-328, 2024
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Silence and Affect in the Swedish Performing Arts After #MeToo
Part of Nordic Theatre Studies, p. 106-126, 2024
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Contemporary post-Soviet popular music: Politics and aesthetics
Part of IASPM Journal, p. 1-5, 2024
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Introduction: The national and gendered meanings of higher classical music education
Part of Baltic Worlds, p. 45-48, 2024
Nation, gender, and classical music on higher music education institution websites
Part of Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, p. 147-166, 2024
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Part of Information & Media, p. 53-69, 2023
- DOI for Feminist Methodologies for Gender Studies Teaching: Cross-Case Analysis of Practical Applications in Three Universities
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Whatever happened to the girl in #MeToo?
Part of The European Journal of Women's Studies, p. 516-524, 2023
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Part of Research Studies in Music Education, 2023
- DOI for Maintaining and challenging conservative teaching and learning culture in conservatories: The need for holistic pedagogy in educational fields of tension
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Gender equality discourse in classical music higher education: Women, individualisation, and change
Part of International Journal of Music Education, 2023
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Music and Racism in Europe 2021 Online Symposium: Suoni, Finland: 20–22 October 2021
Part of Puls, p. 209-210, 2022
Resistance in Maxida Märak’s album Utopi
Part of IASPM@Journal, p. 69-83, 2021
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The Smirnoff Equaliser: En feministisk medieintervention för strömmad musik?
Part of Norsk Medietidsskrift, p. 1-15, 2020
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Organizing music, organizing gender: Algorithmic culture and Spotify recommendations
Part of Popular Communication, p. 78-90, 2020
Broadening research in gender and music practice
Part of Popular Music, p. 636-651, 2020
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What does gender have to do with music, anyway?: Mapping the relation between music and gender
Part of Per Musi, p. 1-11, 2019
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Gender jobs: Dilemmas of Gender Studies education and employability in Sweden
Part of The European Journal of Women's Studies, p. 71-85, 2018
Constructing Terminology and Defining Concepts for Gender Studies in Norway and Sweden
Part of NORA, p. 142-153, 2018
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Experts, dads and technology: Gendered talk about online music
Part of International journal of cultural studies, p. 177-192, 2016
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Moving Forward: A Feminist Analysis of Mobile Music Streaming
Part of Culture Unbound, p. 197-213, 2015
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Introduction: Studying Junctures of Motion and Emotion
Part of Culture Unbound, p. 169-173, 2015
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Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 49-71, 2014
Escaping the everyday: Young people's use of text messages and songs
Part of Youth Studies Australia, p. 59-66, 2013
Starka kvinnor?: Förebilder och tjejer i musikproduktion och musikkonsumtion
Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 111-129, 2013
Sexy Shapes: Girls negotiating gender through popular music
Part of Girlhood Studies, p. 30-46, 2013
Emotions in music culture: the circulation of love
Part of Global Media Journal, 2012
Danssteg på YouTube: musik, genus, etnicitet/"ras"
Part of Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, p. 236-249, 2010
Girls consuming music at home: gender and the exchange of music trough new media
Part of European Journal of Cultural Studies, p. 269-284, 2009
Subkulturforskning, populärmusik och tjejer
Part of Locus, p. 19-32, 2008
Part of Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, p. 91-106, 2007
Books
Feministiska kulturstudier: En introduktion
Studentlitteratur AB, 2023
Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
Streaming Music: Practices, Media, Cultures
Routledge, 2017
En introduktion till genusvetenskapliga begrepp
Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning, 2016
Genusvetarnas framtid: En nationell alumniundersökning av genusvetenskaplig utbildning och arbete
Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning, 2013
Rundgång: genus och populärmusik
Makadam, 2009
Chapters in book
Marketing Conservatoire Education: The Employable White Musicians of European Classical Music
Part of Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World, p. 26-37, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
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Gender in higher music education
Part of Music, Power Relations, and Beyond, p. 75-83, Musikene - School of Music of the Basque Country, 2024
Part of Klassisk musik i det moderna mediesamhället, p. 73-115, Makadam Förlag, 2024
Solidarity as strategy: Anti-racism and feminism in the work of Titiyo
Part of Mixing pop and politics, p. 156-166, Routledge, 2022
Genus, musikbransch och feministisk politik i #närmusikentystnar
Part of Maktordningar och motstånd, p. 203-226, Nordic Academic Press, 2022
Gendering and music streaming: Discourse and algorithms on a music streaming service
Part of Musik & Empowerment, p. 9-24, Springer, 2020
Part of (Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe, p. 3-19, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
Feminism and femininity in music
Part of Female music practice : MusicaFemina International, p. 21-26, Verlag der Apfel, 2020
Digitally mediated identity in the cases of two Sámi artists
Part of The Oxford handbook of popular music in the Nordic countries, p. 379-393, Oxford University Press, 2017
Critical Thinking in Gender Studies Education: Theory and Practice
Part of Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education, p. 111-130, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
Titiyo: Race, gender and genre in Swedish popular music
Part of Made in Sweden, p. 189-199, Routledge, 2016
Genusvetenskaplig didaktik och högskolepedagogik
Part of Pedagogik för högskolelärare, p. 241-261, Gidlunds förlag, 2016
Genusskapande i digitalt musikbruk
Part of Mediers känsla för kön, p. 155-170, Nordicom, 2015
Getting Bodied with Beyoncé on YouTube
Part of Mediated Youth Cultures, p. 182-196, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Traditionella kvinnor: Naturen och den samiska populärmusiken
Part of Senmoderna reflexioner, p. 193-201, Linköping University Electronic Press, 2012
Smal och snygg: Unga diskuterar utseende
Part of Utställningspublikation för utställningen SMAL, p. 24-34, Arbetets museum, 2010
Samla, lagra, kasta: musiksamlande i digitalt format
Part of Kulturellt, p. 252-260, Linköping University Electronic Press, 2009
Collections (editor)
Genusvetenskap, politik och samhällsengagemang
Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning, 2014
Kreativt skrivande och kritiskt tänkande i genusvetenskap
Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning, 2014
Genusvetenskapens pedagogik och didaktik
Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning, 2012
Monograph doctoral thesis
Other
Walking the Line: Female Wedding Ngoma in Zanzibar
Part of Puls, p. 133-135, 2024
Elin Abrahamsson Enahanda läsning. En queertolkning av romancegenrenakad. avh. Ellerström 2018
Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 173-174, 2020
Part of Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, 2019
Part of IASTED International Conference Modelling, Identification, and Control, p. 189-191, 2016