Keir Keightley
Associate Professor
Information & Media Studies
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Keir Keightley teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses that explore scholarly traditions from media studies, popular music studies, film studies, gender studies, cultural history, sound studies, the sociology of taste and cultural studies. His objects of research include the music industries, audio technologies, media stardom, Cold War masculinities, the history of musical authenticity, the globalization of Brazilian bossa nova, the new media of the Progressive Era, Hollywood, Tin Pan Alley, and early television. His work has appeared in journals that include Media Culture and Society, Modernism/modernity, Popular Music, American Music and the Journal of Popular Music Studies; in edited collections such as Movie Music: The Film Reader, Popular Music: Technology and Copyright, Migrating Music, and The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock; and it has been translated into French, Spanish, Hungarian, Korean, and Chinese. He is currently working on a book about early critiques of mass culture, to be entitled Tin Pan Allegory: Music, Media, Modernity.
Research Interest
media studies, popular music studies, film studies, gender studies, cultural history, sound studies, the sociology of taste and cultural studies.
Publications
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Keightley K. Long play: adult-oriented popular music and the temporal logics of the post-war sound recording industry in the USA. Media, culture & society. 2004 May;26(3):375-91.
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Keightley K. ‘Turn it down!’she shrieked: gender, domestic space, and high fidelity, 1948–591. Popular Music. 1996 May;15(2):149-77.
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Keightley K. Reconsidering rock. The Cambridge companion to pop and rock. 2001 Aug 16;116.
