Reader in Music Industries Innovation
Andrew Dubber (or just “Dubber” as he’s more usually known) is the Senior Lecturer in Music Industries at the Birmingham School of Media. He is the co-investigator for music industries and creative commons in the AHRC KTF run by Interactive Cultures.
Dubber moved to the UK from New Zealand in 2004 where, amongst many other things, he was the Degree Leader in Radio at Auckland University of Technology and the host of a jazz radio programme on George FM.
Dubber is internationally recognised as a leading consultant and academic in new strategies and technologies for the radio and the music industries.
He is the co-author of a book about new technologies for broadcasters in developing nations, commissioned by UNESCO, and has been a member of the steering committee for the Radio Studies Network. He has also written for Computer Music Magazine, authored sections on blogging and podcasting for the Alternative Media Handbook (Routledge, 2008), and has travelled extensively to present to conferences in this field.
Dubber develops many of his ideas through the well regarded blog New Music Strategies.
Books, Chapters, Articles
- 2005 – ‘The Digitalisation of New Zealand Radio’ in The Great New Zealand Radio Experience, Karen Neill and Morris W Shanahan (Eds), Thomson Dunmore Press (pp 67-87)
- 2006 – New broadcast technologies UNESCO [co-author] (forthcoming)
Conference Contributions
- 2003 – ‘Radio and the Internet’, Between Empires Conference, Auckland
- 2003 – ‘There’s no such thing as Internet Radio’, The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum, Madison, WI
- 2005 – ‘Radio Question Time’ panel, MeCCSA/AMPE conference, Lincoln
- 2005 – ‘Radio, Digitalisation and the Laws of Media’, Radio Studies Network Conference, Birmingham
- 2005 – ‘There is no ‘We’ in iPod’, The First European Communication Conference, Amsterdam
- 2006 – ‘Online Music Enterprise’, MeCCSA/AMPE Conference, Leeds, January 2006
- 2006 – ‘Jazz, Radio and National Identity in New Zealand’, Leeds International Jazz Conference, Leeds
- 2006 – ‘New Zealand On Air’, Sounding Out Conference, Sunderland
Email Andrew: dubber@gmail.com