My research focuses on media history,
media industries & sound practices across media.
I am a professor of media studies at Bellarmine University and I teach in the Department of Communication, Bellarmine’s honors program and the university’s film studies minor. My BA in English and Philosophy is from Indiana University-Indianapolis, and I received an MA in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University. I did my PhD in Radio-Television-Film and the Doctoral Portfolio in Cultural Studies 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
Professor, Media Studies
Dept. of Communication
Bellarmine University
Louisville, KY 40205
kbarnett@bellarmine.edu
Photo courtesy of Kriech-Higdon Photography.