Kaarina Kilpiö
- University Lecturer, music history, Sibelius Academy Doctoral Programme and Research Centre, Sibelius Academy
- +358503256409
- kaarina.kilpio@uniarts.fi
Publications in the research database (39)
Introduction
I am a Doctor of Social Sciences, interested in the ways music has been used in different (mainly historical) audiovisual cultural products and contexts, as well as on users of music and sound technologies. I have recently studied the history of music and sound in commercial background music products, and in films for advertising, educational and propaganda purposes, as well as the music-related everyday practices in Finland.
My role involves teaching, research administration and the development of doctoral education and research. At SibA, I supervise doctoral students as they prepare their theses and grow as members of the research community. I chair SibA’s publishing committee, and serve as deputy chair of Historiafoorumi (HiFo), the University of the Arts Helsinki’s network of history researchers. My teaching focuses on historical topics, research writing and the examination of everyday musical life.
My own doctoral degree, completed at the University of Helsinki, was an ethnomusicological study right up to the research design and data collection stages. However, whilst writing my thesis, I switched to the study programme in Economic and Social History, so my highest academic degree (from 2005) is a doctorate in Social Sciences.
I have worked on several projects focusing on data derived from ethnographic fieldwork. In virtually all my research designs, I have used field data, which lies at the heart of my research approach: a data-driven and ethnographic approach is the most characteristic and natural for me as a researcher.