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Stefan Belda is a trained bank clerk and studied Philosophy, Musicology, and Psychology in Gießen (Germany) and
London from 2002 to 2008. Since 2009 he is a doctoral candidate at the Forschungszentrum Populäre Musik of Humboldt
University, Berlin, with a dissertation on the change of meaning of physical sound carriers as well as their value
and functions in an information- and network society.
Besides his academical activities, he is promotion- and A&R manager as well as label management assistence at
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Maria Hanáček studied Musicology at Berlin's Humboldt University and Communications Research at
Technical University Berlin from 2002-2005. From 2005-2006 she was a visiting scholar at UCLA's Musicology and
Ethnomusicology Department and in 2007 received her MA in Popular Music Studies from the University of Liverpool.
Since 2008 she has been a doctoral candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she also teaches seminars on
music technology and studio production. Her PhD thesis examines where the creative subject is discursively situated
in the process of record production by analyzing so-called "making of" videos.
Together with Holger Schulze and Jens Papenburg she founded the research network "Sound in Media Culture"
(www.soundmediaculture.net), which is also related to her MA thesis
"Sound as an Aesthetic Dimension: Rock Music and Material Aesthetic Judgments".
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From 2002 to 2008 Martin Herzberg studied Musicology and German literature at the Humboldt-University Berlin.
Apart from his academic activities, he is also a practicing independent musician, working on several musical
projects for his netlabel "cloudbreak records".
Since 2008 he is a doctoral candidate at the Humboldt-University. His dissertation on "Music and Attention"
focuses on the internet as a central shift in the way musicians try to seek for an audience. One of the main goals
of his research is the realistic evaluation of the internet's impact on independent musicians and their fight for
attention.
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Christopher Li studied Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Technical University Berlin and Free University Berlin.
From 2007 to 2009 he was assistant at the Museum of Musical Instruments Berlin, where he currently works as research
associate.
Since 2009 he is a doctoral candidate at the Humboldt University. His dissertation explores the music of Paul
McCartney with a special focus on the relationship between traditional music theory and the analysis of popular
music.
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Glaucia Peres da Silva studied Communication and Social Sciences at Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil).
There she received her M. Phil. in Sociology with the thesis "Mangue: modern, postmodern and global" (2008) about
Manguebeat, a cultural phenomenon in the Brazilian northeast. Since April 2009 she is a doctoral candidate at HU
Berlin in Sociology and Popular Music Studies with a DAAD scholarship. She researches the social preconditions for
the emergence of the "World Music" market in the West and its transformation into a synonym for a global culture.
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Sabine Röthig studied Art History and Cultural Studies at Humboldt University Berlin. She completed her studies with
the degree Master of Arts in 2000. Since then she works as a journalist, reporter and editor in Berlin. Thereby she
focusses on subcultural and music topics. She startet to work on her doctorate in 2007 at the Institute of Popular
Music at Humboldt University Berlin. Her doctoral thesis deals with the aesthetic paradigm shift in the aural and
visual work of Aphex Twin.
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Markus Wyrwich studied Popular Music and Media (BA) at the University of Paderborn and the Music Academy of Detmold
from 2002 to 2005. For half a year he had been a visiting student at the University of Salford to take part in the
degree programme Popular Music and Recording. In 2006, he received his MA in Popular Music Studies from the
University of Liverpool.
Since summer 2007 he is doing his PhD at the Humboldt-Univeristy of Berlin. Markus Wyrwich's research focuses on
Orientalism in contemporary popular music. He is especially interested in questions of sound politics, ideologies
and musical exoticism.
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