Rosa Reitsamer

Rosa Reitsamer, sociologist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. Since more than twenty years, she has been involved in numerous feminist-queer and anti-racist DIY projects such as the digital archive ‘dig me out. Discourses on popular music, gender and ethnicity’ (together with Maria José Belbel, 2009), the exhibition project ‘Born To Be White. Racism and Antisemitism in white majority culture’ (together with Jo Schmeiser, 2005) and the co-editing of the queer feminist magazine ‘Female Sequences’ (1998-2006).

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Research Interests
Popular music, alternative media and gender, musicians’ careers, popular music heritage in Austria.

Publications
Reitsamer, R. and Prokop, R. (2018). ‘Keepin’ it Real in Central Europe: The DIY Rap Music Careers of Male Hip Hop Artists in Austria’, Cultural Sociology.

Reitsamer, R. (forthcoming, 2018). ‘Gendered Narrative of Popular Music History and Heritage’, in S. Baker et al. (eds), The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Heritage, London: Routledge.

Reitsamer, R. (2016). ‘Not Singing in Tune: The Hor 29 Novembar Choir and the Invention of a Translocal Do-It-Yourself Popular Music Heritage in Austria’, Popular Music and Society, 39: 1, pp. 59-71.

Gavanas, A. and Reitsamer, R. (2016). ‘Neoliberal Working Conditions, Self-Promotion and DJ Trajectories: A Gendered Minefield’, PopScriptum, 12.

Reitsamer, R. (2015). ‘Alternative Histories and Counter-Memories. Feminist Music Archives in Europe’, in S. Baker (ed.), Preserving Popular Music Heritage. Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-Together, New York: Routledge, pp. 91-103.

Reitsamer, R. (2015). ‘The Right to be different. Music, Migration and Citizenship’, in R. Reitsamer and K. Liebsch Katharina (eds), Musik. Gender. Differenz. Münster, Westfälisches Dampfbook, pp. 266-279.

Reitsamer, R. and Zobl, E. (2014). ‘Alternative Media Production, Feminism, and Citizenship Practices’, in M. Boler and M. Ratto (eds), DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media, Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 329-342.

Reitsamer, R. and Zobl, E. (2014). ‘Gender and Media Activism. Alternative Feminist Media in Europe’, in C. Carter et al. (eds), Routledge Companion to Media and Gender, London: Routledge, pp. 233-244.

Gavanas, A. and Reitsamer, R. (2013). ‘DJ Technologies, Social Networks and Gendered Trajectories in European DJ Cultures’, in B. A. Attias et al. (eds), DJ Culture in the Mix. Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 51-78.

Reitsamer, R. (2012). ‘Female Pressure: A translocal feminist youth-oriented cultural network’, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 26: 3, pp. 300-308.

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