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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

        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)

        Is equitable remuneration equitable? Performers' rights in the UK

        Osborne, Richard (2017) Is equitable remuneration equitable? Performers' rights in the UK. Popular Music and Society, 40 (5). pp. 573-591. ISSN 0300-7766

        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

        'That's me in the spotlight': audiences and musicians on screen

        Osborne, Richard (2016) 'That's me in the spotlight': audiences and musicians on screen. In: Musicians and their Audiences: Performance, Speech and Mediation. Tsioulakis, Ioannis and Hytönen-Ng, Elina , eds. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 134-150. ISBN 9781472456939

        Music on the blockchain

        O'Dair, Marcus and Beaven, Zuleika and Neilson, David and Osborne, Richard and Pacifico, Paul (2016) Music on the blockchain. Working Paper. Middlesex University.

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Member of advisory board for Sound Diplomacy

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