[Air-L] Special Issue Published: TikTok-Music-Cultures in Musicologica Austriaca

[Juan Bermudez]

Dear colleagues, (Apologies for cross-posting!)

I am delighted to announce that the special issue I edited, TikTok-Music-Cultures: Perspectives on the Study of Musicking Practices On & Through TikTok, has been published in Musicologica Austriaca – Journal for Austrian Music Studies (MusAu).

Full Issue: https://musau.publia.org/musau/issue/view/2


Table of Contents


  *   Introduction: TikTok-Music-Cultures – Juan Bermúdez (https://musau.publia.org/musau/issue/view/2/1)


  *   Ethnographing TikTok—Toward an E3thnomusicological Approach to a Multimedia Musicking – Juan Bermúdez (https://musau.publia.org/musau/article/view/16/4)


  *   #TikTokActivism: Music and Sounds in Political Content – Tessa Balser-Schuhmann, Nicole Kiruka (https://musau.publia.org/musau/article/view/18/5)


  *   Political Performances: TikTok’s Sonic Influence on Affective Activist Expression – Emma C. Schrott (https://musau.publia.org/musau/article/view/20/6)


  *   Rap al Caudillo Trend: TikTok’s Queer Subversion of Spanish National Imagery – Paula Aguilera Martínez (https://musau.publia.org/musau/article/view/22/7)


  *   Old Clichés or a Transforming Community? Early Music Interpreters on TikTok: Identity and Communication Strategies – David Merlin (https://musau.publia.org/musau/article/view/19/8)


  *   “Fly Me to the Moon”: Jazz on TikTok – Benjamin Burkhart (https://musau.publia.org/musau/article/view/17/9)


  *   Similarities and Divergences between Music Production and TikTok in the Memes Era – Mattia Zanotti (https://musau.publia.org/musau/article/view/21/10)

Have fun reading it!

Best wishes,
Juan Bermúdez



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Dr. Juan Bermúdez
He / him / his

Senior Scientist
Institut für Ethnomusikologie
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz

Academia<https://kug.academia.edu/JuanBerm%C3%BAdez> / ResearchGate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan-Bermudez-7>

Recently published:

J. Bermúdez (2025). Musicking TikTok: A Musical Ethnography from a Glocal Austrian Context<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385255930_Musicking_TikTok_A_Musical_Ethnography_from_a_Glocal_Austrian_Context> (=New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media 15). New York: Bloomsbury.

J. Bermúdez (Ed.) (2025). "TikTok-Music-Cultures. Perspectives on the Study of Musicking Practices On & Through TikTok<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389194585_TikTok-Music-Cultures_Perspectives_on_the_Study_of_Musicking_Practices_On_Through_TikTok>," Special Issue, Musicologica Austriaca - Journal for Austrian Music Studies.

J. Bermúdez (2025). "Ethnographing TikTok: Toward an E3thnomusicological Approach to a Multimedia Musicking<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389186853_Ethnographing_TikTok_Toward_an_E3thnomusicological_Approach_to_a_Multimedia_Musicking>,” Musicologica Austriaca - Journal for Austrian Music Studies, 8-32.

J. Bermúdez (2023). "Performing Beyond the Platform – Experiencing Musicking On and Through YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373879386_Performing_Beyond_the_Platform_Experiencing_Musicking_on_and_Through_YouTube_TikTok_and_Instagram>,“ In Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music. Ed. by Holly Rogers, Joana Freitas and João Francisco Porfirio. London: Bloomsbury, 187–202.