Musicology

Musicology is a multidisciplinary research field where music is studied as action, culture, performance, structure and a part of society.

Research topics in musicology can be related to any musical genre, time period and culture. The methodology of musicology is based on, in addition to theories and analysis methods relevant to music, cultural studies, philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, history, sociology, psychology, gender studies, media theories and computer studies. Musicology also studies dance and sound.
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MA, Doctoral Researcher (university-funded), musicology Member of the steering group of the Doctoral Programme in Humanities 2026-2027 Member of the steering group of the Doctoral Programme in Philosophy, Arts and Society 2024-2025  
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Väitöskirjatutkija (palkallinen), musiikkitiede
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Työskentelen väitöskirjatutkijana Helsingin yliopistossa tutkien säveltäjä Leevi Madetojan (1887–1947) sävellyskäsikirjoituksia. Muita tutkimuskiinnostuksen kohteitani ovat musiikkifilologia, nuottipaleografia, kriittinen editio, venäläinen musiikkikulttuuri ja orkesterinjohtaminen. Olen toiminut vertaisarvioijana lehtiin Musiikki ja Journal of the International Conductors Guild, ja päätoimittanut HY:n musiikkitieteen ainejärjestön Synkooppi-lehteä.
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Musiikkitieteen yliopistonlehtori (ma) Tietoasiantuntija, Datatuki/Hulib
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I am a researcher and educator specialized in music, media and social justice. I have lectured and coordinated courses since 2007 at Åbo Akademi University, University of Turku, Helsinki University, Dalarna University College in Sweden and Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where I worked as an assistant professor in musicology 2022-2024. I have also given talks, organized events and training in collaboration with various organizations across Europe. Currently, I am studying race as a social category in the field of music in the Kone Foundation funded research project Music scholars in society: Advancing social justice through activist music research (University of Helsinki / Suoni 2020-2025). I am investigating how music scholarship and media in Europe is equipped to deal with the systematic and structural injustices of racism. I am also exploring ethical questions in autoethnographic research and the compatibility of research with anti-racist activism. Reflexivity and disclosure of positionality are essential both in my research and in my teaching. As a white non-disabled cis-male studying systems of oppression, I acknowledge that I have no experiential knowledge on the topic. Rather than analyzing and possibly contributing to the normalization of the damage and distress caused by structures that I benefit from, my work interrogates privilege and how it not only creates injustice, but often works to obstruct any efforts of dismantling it.
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Ethnomusicologist, Title of docent (habilitation) in musicology
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Toimin musiikkitieteen yliopistonlehtorina. Opetan musiikin historiaan, suomalaiseen musiikkiin sekä kulttuuriseen musiikintutkimukseen liittyviä kursseja. Vastaan musiikkitieteen Tutkielmaseminaari I:stä sekä syventävien opintojen kokonaismerkinnästä. Tutkimuksellinen asiantuntemukseni liittyy muun muassa suomalaisen musiikin historiaan, ekokriittiseen musiikintutkimukseen sekä musiikkifilosofiaan.
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PI, Senior Researcher
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Professor of Musicology and Head of Discipline
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