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      Dr Richard Osborne

      ROLE: Senior Lecturer in Popular Music
      DEPARTMENT: Performing Arts
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 5724
      EMAIL: R.Osborne@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Dr Richard Osborne BA, MA, PhD, PG Cert HE

        Richard Osborne joined Middlesex University in 2010. He was previously a researcher on the AHRC funded project Colonial Film and before that was studying for his PhD in Cultural Studies with the London Consortium at Birkbeck.

        His music blog is available here:http://richardosbornevinyl.blogspot.co.uk/


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      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Programme Leader of Popular Music. Teaches cultural theory and popular music and the history of popular music.

        Richard Osborne's book Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record (Ashgate, 2012) was awarded a special mention in the 2013 IASPM book prize and was a finalist in the ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research 2013.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        History of popular music, recording technology, hits, copyright, music industry, audiences.

        I would welcome doctoral students working in any of the above areas.

        A comprehensive list of my research outputs is available at:http://mdx.academia.edu/RichardOsborne

        Publication Feed

        Introduction

        Osborne, Richard and Beaven, Zuleika (2018) Introduction. In: Mute Records: Artists, business, history. Beaven, Zuleika and Osborne, Richard and O'Dair, Marcus , eds. Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781501340604

        Moby, Minstrelsy and Melville

        Osborne, Richard (2018) Moby, Minstrelsy and Melville. In: Mute: Artists, business, history. Beaven, Zuleika and Osborne, Richard and O'Dair, Marcus , eds. Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, pp. 169-181. ISBN 9781501340604

        Mute records: artists, business, history

        Beaven, Zuleika and O'Dair, Marcus and Osborne, Richard , eds. (2018) Mute records: artists, business, history. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781501340604 (Accepted/In press)

        Vinyl, Vinyl everywhere: The analog record in the digital world

        Osborne, Richard (2018) Vinyl, Vinyl everywhere: The analog record in the digital world. In: The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence. Wolf, Mark J. P. , ed. Routledge, pp. 200-214. ISBN 9781138216266

        Six types of silence

        Osborne, Richard (2018) Six types of silence. In: Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound. Bates, Eliot and Bennett, Samantha , eds. Bloomsbury Academic, New York, pp. 211-228. ISBN 9781501332050

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Member of advisory board for Sound Diplomacy

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