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/
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.
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
Osborne, Richard (2021) Introduction. In: Music by numbers: the use and abuse of statistics in the music industries. Osborne, Richard and Laing, Dave , eds. Intellect, Bristol, UK, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781789382532
Osborne, Richard and Laing, Dave , eds. (2021) Music by numbers: the uses and abuses of statistics in the music industries. Intellect, Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781789382532
Osborne, Richard (2020) At the sign of the swingin’ symbol: the manipulation of the UK Singles Chart. In: Music by numbers: the use and abuse of statistics in the music industries. Osborne, Richard and Laing, Dave , eds. Intellect, Bristol, UK, pp. 20-28. ISBN 9781789382532 (Accepted/In press)
Osborne, Richard (2020) The gold disc: one million pop fans can’t be wrong. In: Music by numbers: the use and abuse of statistics in the music industries. Osborne, Richard and Laing, Dave , eds. intellect, Bristol, UK, pp. 39-55. ISBN 9781789382532 (Accepted/In press)
Osborne, Richard (2020) 'I am a one in ten': success ratios in the recording industry. In: Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries. Osborne, Richard and Laing, Dave , eds. Intellect, Bristol, UK, pp. 56-71. ISBN 9781789382532 (Accepted/In press)
Member of advisory board for Sound Diplomacy
