Pop Music Made in Småland

Martin Knust is an associate professor in musicology. He studied musicology, theology and philosophy at the University of Greifswald, the Humboldt University Berlin and the Technical University Dresden. He has had academic appointments and lectureships in Germany and Sweden, among others as postdoctoral fellow at Stockholm University. He is member of Linnæus research center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, board member of research school The Future of Democracy (FUDEM) and leader of a 3-year research project about digital music production, funded by the Family Kamprad Foundation (2023–25).

• 1. Creativity and creation: How music was and is created.- 2. From beginner to expert: How to learn and teach to be a professional music producer.- 3. Markets and entrepreneurs: How copyright, distribution and media products.- 4. Marketing and entrepreneurship: How the relation between music producers and music consumers has changed during the past 40 years.- 5. Genres and media: How media employed in music production and entrepreneurship have multiplied and diversified.- 6. Technology and product: How digital music production places itself apart from analogue.