School of Social and Political Science

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About the book panel:

This book panel will discuss Kristina Kolbe's new book, The Sound of Difference (Manchester University Press 2024). In this book, Kolbe critically examines how diversity work takes shape in classical music, a cultural sector deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism. The author will be joined by panelists Christina Scharff (Kings College London) and Lisa Gaupp (Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies/IDK) to discuss the book and its implications.

About the panel:

Kristina Kolbe is an Assistant Professor in Sociology of Arts and Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. With a PhD in Sociology from LSE, Kristina explores how inequalities of class, race, and gender are reworked in and through culture, with a special focus on the role of music, visual arts, and the media. She currently holds a VENI grant from the Dutch Research Council and an Early Career Fellowship from the Independent Social Research Foundation to examine the relationship between a politics of music production, grassroots approaches to creative work, and a politics of care.

Dr Christina Scharff is Professor of Culture & Subjectivity at the department for Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. She explores gender, media, and culture through theoretically informed empirical research. Christina is author and co-editor of several books, which discuss topics ranging from young women’s engagements with feminism, new femininities, and aesthetic labour to gender, race, and class inequalities in the classical music profession. Most recently, Christina co-edited (with Anna Bull and Laudan Nooshin) the book Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession: New Ideas for Tackling Inequalities and Exclusions.

Lisa Gaupp is professor of Cultural Institutions Studies at the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM). She researches and teaches on topics including cultural institutions/norms, musical practices, performing arts, arts organizations, migration, inequalities, global interrelationships, urban spaces, politics and policy, diversity, and decolonisation. Amongst others, she is the author of 'Die exotisierte Stadt – Kulturpolitik und Musikvermittlung im postmigrantischen Prozess' [The Exoticized City – Cultural Policies and Music Mediation in a Post-Migrant Process] and the co-editor of the volumes Diversity and Otherness. Transcultural Insights into Norms, Practices, Negotiations and Arts and Power. Policies in and by the Arts.

About the organisers:

The Sociology Speaker Series presents the latest research by academic staff members and distinguished guests from across the United Kingdom and beyond. We normally meet on Wednesdays during the semester. Organiser: Dr Lisa McCormick ([email protected])

The purpose of the BSA sociology of the arts study group is to provide an intellectual home and meeting point for those studying the arts and culture from a variety of sociological perspectives. Through online and in-person seminars, a newsletter, mailing-list, and conference organisation, this study group exists to foster a scholarly community for those who think sociologically with and about the arts. The study group is particularly interested in fostering the PGR community in the field and will hold special events to do so. Our PGR Rep, Jiayi Tian, makes sure that the study group serves the needs of PGRs. Convenors: Dr Laura Harris and Dr Linzhi Zhang.