Paper at WORK rocks - music WORKS

Music creates work - on, in and with it as well as beyond the object of production. At the interdisciplinary conference on digitalized working environments on 24.04.2026, Elena Rosenberg will present on “Gendered Logics in Distributed Practices of Music Studio Work”. Her paper is based on her final thesis at the Chair of Sociology of Science and Technology.

Combining a theoretical sociology of technology and gender, the paper uses qualitative interviews to explore the question of how gendering is experienced and negotiated in the music studio as a key site of cultural production. Taking the creative work on music in the studio as a social phenomenon in distributed practice, the focus is on empirical insights into the experience of female* music-producing artists with regard to their work in the music studio. The contribution will use examples of practices in dealing with microphones to shed light on how gendered logics are produced, stabilized and negotiated along socio-material, material-symbolic, interactional and shared common-sense structures.

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