John Richardson
Professor
john.richardson@utu.fi +358 29 450 3435 +358 50 328 9412 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku Office: V113 Consultation hour: Wednesdays 14:00 - 15:00 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7627-4222 |
Cultural Study of Music, Film Music Studies, Popular Music Studies, Contemporary Music, Audiovisual Studies, Gender Studies, Ecocriticism, Cultural Study of Music Technology, Music Industry Studies, Finnish and Nordic Music, Research-Creation
Professor John Richardson is an expert in several fields, including the cultural study of music, audiovisual research, popular music studies, contemporary music studies, gender studies, ecocriticism, the cultural study of technology and research-creation. He holds dual Finnish and British citizenship, gained BA, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Jyväskylä (1992; 1995) and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California at Los Angeles (1996-7) before working at several universities in Finland (University of Jyväskylä; Helsinki University; Åbo Academy University) and Britain (City University, London; De Montfort University, Leicester). In 2011, he was appointed to his current position, Professor of Musicology at the University of Turku. He is additionally Docent in Musicology at the University of Helsinki, and Docent in Music and Media at the University of Turku. Recently, he has taken an interest in developing mixed methods research methods, combining techniques of close reading, ethnography and other qualitative methods and cultural analysis. Richardson is an active songwriter and musician. His first solo album, The Fold, was released in 2017. He is working on a second, The Pine and the Birch, which is schedule for release in 2022, and a collaborative creative of project on the exoplanet system Trappist-1. This creative work is the subject of ongoing research in the field of research-creation.
John Richardson is the author of An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal(Oxford University Press 2012) and Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass’s Akhnaten (Wesleyan University Press 1999). He is additionally co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (eds. Richardson, Gorbman & Vernallis 2013), The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (eds. Vernallis, Herzog and Richardson 2013), Music, Memory, Space (eds. Brusila, Johnson & Richardson 2016), Essays on Sound and Vision (Richardson & Hawkins, 2007), and Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama (eds. Novak & Richardson, Routledge, 2019). He recently coedited a special issue of the online journal Radical Musicology on Queer Sounds and Spaces (with Pääkkölä & Jarman, 2019). He is currently working on a monograph on new approaches to recent audiovisual forms, and co-editing a book on music videos in the nordic region. Recent article topics range from an ecocritical study of the composer Hildur Guðnadóttir's soundtrack for the television series Chernobyl (forthcoming in Music and the Moving Image) to an article on how so called "bedroom aesthetics" is transforming the music landscape through close readings of the music and music videos of Billie Eilish.
Richardson's recent teaching includes the Musicology MA and PhD seminars, courses on audiovisual analysis, music video analysis, close reading of music and the arts, the cultural study of music technology, and music industry fields and practices,.
- Radioactive Music: The Eerie Agency of Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Music for the Television Series Chernobyl (2021)
- Music and the Moving Image
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tehdään Eyptistä jälleen suuri: Oopperatalven tapaus on Philip Glassin Akhnatenin ensimmäinen tuotanto Pohjoismaissa (2021)
- Rondo Classic
(E1 Popularised article) - Regina Spektor’s ‘Small BillS’: the cute and the manic-zany as body-political strategies (2020) Popular Musicology and Identity: Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins John Richardson, Anna-Elena Pääkkölä
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Sensing Time and Space through the Soundtracks of Interstellar and Arrival (2020) Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening Richardson John, Pääkkölä Anna-Elena, Qvick Sanna
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Artists recall and respond (2019) Einstein on the Beach: Opera Beyond Drama Jelena Novak, John Richardson
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Einstein on the Beach: Opera Beyond Drama (2019) Jelena Novak, John Richardson
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Introduction (2019) Einstein on the Beach: Opera Beyond Drama John Richardson, Jelena Novak
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Knee Chapter 1: Paying Attention to Einstein: Philip Glass interviewed by John Richardson (2019) Einstein on the Beach: Opera Beyond Drama John Richardson
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Lähiluku ja kehystäminen ekokriittisessä musiikintutkimuksessa. Esimerkkeinä Psy ja Sigur Rós (2019) Musiikki ja luonto. Soiva kulttuuri ympäristökriisin aikakaudella John Richardson
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - New Romantic Imagining and Queering Tactics of English Pop in Early Thatcherite Britain and The Second British Invasion (2019)
- Radical Musicology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - One step forwards but three steps back, and then one step forwards again - Peter Greenaway interviewed by John Richardson (2019) Einstein on the Beach: Opera Beyond Drama John Richardson
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Ooppera-arvio: Andy Warholin elämää ja kuolemia käsittelevä nykyooppera sai kanttaesityksen -- Flash Flash on oopperatapaus (2019)
- Turun Sanomat
(E1 Popularised article) - Queer sounds and spaces - Introduction (2019)
- Radical Musicology
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Radical Musicology Special Issue: Queer Sounds and Spaces (2019) Anna-Elena Pääkkölä, John Richardson, Freya Jarman
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Surrealism in Icelandic Popular Music (2019) Sound Icelandic: Essays on Icelandic Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries John Richardson
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Virtual Spaces and Gendered Meanings in the Production and Performances of Studio Killers (2019)
- Radical Musicology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kielen ja musiikin välimaastossa : puheen musiikillinen eskaloituminen audiovisuaalisessa mediassa (2018) Kirjallisuuden ja musiikin leikkauspintoja John Richardson
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Puheen musiikillinen estetisoiminen audiovisuaalisisessa mediassa (2018) Kirjallisuuden ja musiikin leikkauspintoja John Richardson
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Musiikin ekologinen lähiluku digitaalisessa kulttuurissa: pohdintoja musiikin kokemuspohjaisen kulttuurianalyysin lähtökohdista (2017)
- Etnomusikologian vuosikirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Between Speech, Music, and Sound; The Voice, Flow, and the Aestheticizing Impulse in Audiovisual Media (2016) The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art John Richardson
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)