My research focuses on media history,
media industries & sound practices across media.
I am an associate professor of media studies at Bellarmine University, where I also serve as graduate chair of the MA in Communication and MS in Digital Media programs. My BA in English and Philosophy is from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and I have an MA in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University. I did my PhD in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas. Publications include “Furniture Music: The Phonograph as Furniture,” in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, “The Selznick Studio, ‘Spellbound’ and the Marketing of Film Music,’ in Music, Sound and the Moving Image, and chapters in several book anthologies. I am a former co-editor of the Velvet Light Trap, graduate editor and columnist for Flow, Antenna and In Media Res. My first book is Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry (University of Michigan Press, 2020).
Contact:
Kyle Barnett, PhD
Associate Professor, Media Studies
Dept. of Communication
Bellarmine University
Louisville, KY 40205
kbarnett@bellarmine.edu
Photo courtesy of Kriech-Higdon Photography.