Ragnhild Brøvig is Professor in Popular Music Studies in the Department of Musicology, and in RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has published articles and book chapters on music production, hip-hop and electronic popular music, remix- and mashup culture, sampling and copyright, digital media, and rhythm/groove and sound. She is the author of Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown (2023, MIT Press) and Digital Signatures: The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound (with Anne Danielsen, MIT Press, 2016). Her research has been funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Arts Council Norway.
Key competence and tutoring topics
Popular music
Music production
Hip-hop, elektronic popular music, remix, sampling, glitch
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild, and Anne Danielsen. 2016. Digital Signatures: The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild. 2013. Music in Bits and Bits of Music: Signatures of Digital Mediation in Popular Music Recordings. PhD diss., University of Oslo. Full text in Research Archive.
Articles and Book Chapters:
Brøvig, Ragnhild. 2024 (forthcoming). Stealing from or Facilitating Hard-Working Musicians? Remixers' Code of Honor. In The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd edition, eds. Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, and xtine burrough. New York: Routledge.
Danielsen, Anne, Ragnhild Brøvig, Kjetil Klette Bøhler, Guilherme Schmidt Câmara, Mari Romarheim Haugen, Eirik Jacobsen, Mats S. Johansson, Olivier Lartillot, Kristian Nymoen, Kjell Andreas Oddekalv, Bjørnar Sandvik, George Sioros, and Justin London. 2024. There’s More to Timing than Time: Investigating Musical Microrhythm Across Disciplines and Cultures. Music Perception 41 (3): 176–198. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.41.3.176
Brøvig, Ragnhild and Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker. 2024 (forthcoming). Vocal Chops: Another Human/Machine Hybrid. InInnovation in Music: Cultures and Contexts, eds. Jan-Olof Gullö, Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Justin Paterson, and Rob Toulson. Routledge
Kjus, Yngvar, Ragnhild Brøvig, and Solveig Wang. 2024 (forthcoming). Kvinners første møte med DAW: En fornemmelse av å være i gutteklubbens skygger [Women's First Meeting with DAW: A Feeling of Being in the Shadow of the Boys' Club]
Danielsen, Anne, Mats S. Johansson, Ragnhild Brøvig, Bjørnar E. Sandvik, and Kjetil K. Bøhler. 2023. Shaping Rhythm: Timing and Sound in Five Groove-Based Genres. Popular Music. ISSN 0261-1430. Full text in Research Archive
Brøvig, Ragnhild. 2022. “It Ain’t but One Kind of Blues”: Kid Koala’s Bluesy Embrace of the Fragmented. In Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives, eds. William Moylan, Lori Burns, and Mike Alleyne. New York: Routledge.
Brøvig, Ragnhild, Bjørnar E. Sandvik, and Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker. 2022. “Influence du traitement de plage dynamique sur le rythme perçu dans l’EDM.” In L’Interaction dans la musique. Son, geste, dispositifs dans les musiques électroniques et électroacoustiques (Collection Aesthetica). Presses universitaires de Rennes.
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild, Bjørnar E. Sandvik, Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker, and Anne Danielsen. 2021. The Organic Grid: Sound and Timing in Electronic Dance Music. Music Theory Spectrum 44/1. Full text in Research Archive.
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild, and Ellis Jones. 2021. Remix’s Retreat? The Impact of Platform Detection Procedures on Mashups. New Music & Society. DOI: 10.1177/14614448211026059. Full text in Research Archive.
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild, Bjørnar E. Sandvik, and Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker. 2020. “Dynamic Range Processing’s Influence on Perceived Timing in Electronic Dance Music.” Music Theory Online, 26/2. DOI: 10.30535/mto.26.2.3
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild, and Ellis Jones. 2020. Detection Algorithms and their Implications for Participation: The Case of Mashups. AoIR SPIR (Selected Paper of Internet Research, the 21 Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11181
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild and Aram Sinnreich. 2019. Do You Wanna Build a Wall? Remix Tactics in the Age of Trump. Popular Music and Society, 43/5: 535–549. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2019.1650990
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild. 2019. Humor’s Role in Mashups and Remixes. In On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements, eds. Nick Brae and Kai Arne Hansen, pp. 189–207. Palegrave Macmillan.
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild. 2019. Mixing with Quotations: Mashups and Contextual Transformation. In The Art of Record Production: Creative Practice in the Studio, Volume 2, eds. Simon Zagorski-Thomas, Katia Isakoff, Sophie Stévance, and Serge Lacasse, pp. 50–65. Oxon/New York: Routledge.
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild. 2018. Listening To or Through Technology: Opaque and Transparent Mediation in Popular Music. In Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound, eds. Samantha Bennett and Eliot Bates, pp. 195–210. New York/London: Bloomsbury Academic. Full text in Research Archive
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild. 2018. Musical Recycling: Mashup Aesthetics and Authorship. AoIR SPIR (Selected Paper of Internet Research, the 17th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers).
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild, and Anne Danielsen. 2017. Music Production: Recording Technologies and Acousmatic Listening. In Routledge Companion to Music Cognition, eds. Richard Ashley and Renee Timmers, pp. 191–201. New York: Routledge. Full text in Research Archive.
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild. 2016. Justin Bieber featuring Slipknot: Consumption as Mode of Production. In Music and Virtuality, eds. Sheila Whiteley and Shara Rambarran, pp. 266–81. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Full text in Research Archive.
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild, and Anne Danielsen. 2013. The Naturalised and the Surreal: Changes in the Perception of Popular Music Sound. Organised Sound 18/1: 72–81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355771812000258. Full text in Research Archive.
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild. 2013. The Magnetic Tape Recorder: Recording Aesthetics in the New Era of Schizophonia. In Material Culture and Electronic Sound, eds. Frode Weium and Tim Boon, pp. 131–57. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press/Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild, and Paul Harkins. 2012. Contextual Incongruity and Musical Congruity: The Aesthetics and Humour in Mash-Ups. Popular Music 31/1: 87–104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114301100047X
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild. 2010. Opaque Mediation: The Cut-and-Paste Groove in DJ Food’s “Break.” In Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction, ed. Anne Danielsen, pp. 159–75. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. Full text in Research Archive (for a more detailed account on the concept of opaque mediation, read my "Listening To or Through Technology").
Brøvig-Andersen, Ragnhild. 2007. Musikk og mediering: Teknologi relatert til sound og groove i trip-hop-musikk [Music and Mediation: Technology related to Sound and Groove in Trip-Hop Music]. MA thesis, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. Full text in Research Archive.
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