Rebecca Dobre Billström
Rebecca Dobre Billström Position: Analyst, Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Music, Theatre and ArtEmail: cmViZWNjYS5kb2JyZS1iaWxsc3Ryb207b3J1LnNl
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About Rebecca Dobre Billström
Rebecca Dobre Billström is a senior lecturer in music education. Rebecca teaches primarily in the teacher program (music and theatre orientation), but also in the school’s undergraduate and master’s program in musicology.
Rebecca’s background is in music education and gender studies, and she defended her thesis in musicology at Örebro University in 2022 with the thesis Feminist musical engagements. The struggle against gender inequalities in music-making practices. Based on interviews with musicians from various music environments engaging in affecting change, who start out from a gendered perspective, the thesis explores the feminist political potential of both music-making and organisational work to combat inequalities in relation to music.
In her current research, Rebecca is interested in freelance musicians' working life and how the interplay between gendered, racialised and class-based power differentials shapes musicians' opportunities to work and maintain a career in Swedish music scenes.
Rebecca has also previously worked as an analyst in the university administration.
Publications
Chapters in books
- Dobre Billström, R. (2024). Feministisk handling i musiklivet. In: Eva Georgii-Hemming och Nadia Moberg, Makt: när musik och människor möts (pp. 73-88). Örebro: Musikhögskolan, Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]
- de Boise, S. & Dobre Billström, R. (2016). Playing with Gender: Toward Critical, Transnational Perspectives on Music and Gender. In: Antenor Ferreira Corrêa, Music in an intercultural perspective (pp. 25-40). Brasilia: Strong Edições. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- de Boise, S. , Dobre Billström, R. , Georgii-Hemming, E. & Moberg, N. (2024). Power Relations in Music Society: the Elite and the Underprivileged. Paper presented at Gendering Music Matter. Power, Affects, and Infrastructures of Music Industries, the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, 13–15 March 2024. [BibTeX]
- Dobre Billström, R. (2019). Politics of failure, hope and solidarity: Feminist musical engagements in a Swedish context. In: IASPM XX. Turns and Revolutions in Popular Music Abstracts. Paper presented at 20th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM XX), "Turns and Revolutions in Popular Music", Canberra, Australia, June 24-28, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Dobre Billström, R. (2018). Feminist Stories of Music. In: Music and Gender in Balance Conference TROMSØ 5TH & 6TH APRIL 2018. Paper presented at Music and Gender in Balance, Tromsø, Norway, April 5-6, 2018. (pp. 43-43). [BibTeX]
- Dobre Billström, R. (2016). Feminist activism and gender discrimination within and across different music scenes. Paper presented at Gemus: Gender and Music - Practices, Performances, Politics, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, March 16-18, 2016. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Dobre Billström, R. (2022). Feminist musical engagements: The struggle against gender inequalities in music-making practices. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]