Co-Researcher
José Gálvez holds a research position at the University of Augsburg. Between 2019 and 2025 he was research assistant in the department of Musicology/Sound Studies at the University of Bonn. There he worked on his PhD about the analysis of sound and subjectivity in the US rock & roll culture of the 1950s. Previously, he worked at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Düsseldorf. He studied Historical and Systematic Musicology at the University of Hamburg (BA) as well as Musicology at the Humboldt University of Berlin (MA). From 2016 to 2020, he was a member of the advisory board of IASPM D-A-CH. From 2021 to 2025, he was spokesperson of the “Early Career Researcher Group” in the German Musicological Society. He conducts research at the interface between media theory, cultural history and sound analysis with a focus on popular music, technology and politics.