Dr. A.T. (Alex) van Venrooij
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Cultural Sociology
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
- Room number: C6.17
Postal address
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Postbus 15508
1001 NA Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profiel
Biography
Alex van Venrooij is Assistant Professor in cultural sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a MA degree (cum laude) in theoretical sociology from the University of Amsterdam and received his PhD in 2009 from Erasmus University Rotterdam. His dissertation research focused on cross-national differences and longitudinal changes in the discourse structures of popular music critics and was conducted as part of the VICI research project ' Cultural Classification Systems in Transitions '. He was a visiting student at the graduate school of sociology at Emory University in Atlanta and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2012 he received a VENI/NWO grant for a 4-year research project 'The Dynamics of Genres: A Comparative Study of the Success and Failure of Electronic Dance Music in the US, Uk and the Netherlands'. He is a member of the editorial board of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, Media and the Arts.
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Publications
- refereed (17)
- academic (4)
- professional (2)
- popular scientific (2)
- recognitions (16)
- supervised theses (1)
2022
- van Venrooij, A., Miller, C., & Schmutz, V. (2022). Race and Genre Ambiguity in the Critical Reception of Popular Music. Sociological Inquiry, 92(2), 568-596. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12470 [details]
2021
Punt, M. B., & van Venrooij, A. (2021). Signals in the Waves of Surf: Category Development and Signals in Surf Music. Sociological Perspectives, 64(3), 387-410. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121420950367 [details]- Schmutz, V., & van Venrooij, A. (2021). Harmonizing Forms of Legitimacy in the Consecration of Popular Music. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(1), 83-98. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218813607 [details]
2019
- Wilderom, R., & van Venrooij, A. (2019). Intersecting fields: The influence of proximate field dynamics on the development of electronic/dance music in the US and UK. Poetics, 77, Article 101389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2019.101389 [details]
2018
- Schmutz, V., & van Venrooij, A. (2018). Concurrence, consensus et consécration dans la musique populaire. In L. Ellena, P. Humeau, & F. Renard (Eds.), La reconnaissance à l’oeuvre: Luttes de classement artistique, processus, ambivalence (pp. 145-162). (Sociologie et sciences sociales). Pulim. [details]
- van Venrooij, A., & Schmutz, V. (2018). Categorical ambiguity in cultural fields: The effects of genre fuzziness in popular music. Poetics, 66, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2018.02.001 [details]
2015
- van Venrooij, A. (2015). A community ecology of genres: Explaining the emergence of new genres in the UK field of electronic/dance music, 1985-1999. Poetics, 52, 104-123. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2015.06.005 [details]
2014
- Bachmayer, T., Wilterdink, N., & van Venrooij, A. (2014). Taste differentiation and hierarchization within popular culture: the case of salsa music. Poetics, 47, 60-82. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2014.10.004 [details]
- van Venrooij, A. (2014). Over het ontstaan van culturele soorten: een ecologische analyse van het ontstaan van nieuwe genres in de elektronische dansmuziek. Sociologie, 10(2), 93-123. https://doi.org/10.5553/Sociologie/157433142014010002001 [details]
2013
- van Venrooij, A., & Schmutz, V. (2013). De categorische imperatief in de populaire muziek. Sociologie, 9(1), 73-96. https://doi.org/10.5117/SOC2013.1.VENR [details]
- van Venrooij, A., & Schmutz, V. (2013). De consequenties van categorieën: een analyse van grensoverschrijdende genre-identiteit in de populaire muziek. Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, 34(3), 364-389. [details]
2011
- van Venrooij, A. (2011). Classifying popular music in the United States and the Netherlands. American Behavioral Scientist, 55(5), 609-623. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764211398082 [details]
2010
- Schmutz, V., van Venrooij, A., Janssen, S., & Verboord, M. (2010). Change and continuity in newspaper coverage of popular music since 1955: evidence from the United States, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Popular music and society, 33(4), 501-515. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007761003694290 [details]
- Sengers, F., Raven, R. P. J. M., & van Venrooij, A. (2010). From riches to rags: biofuels, media discourses and resistance to sustainable energy technologies. Energy Policy, 38(9), 5013-5027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.04.030 [details]
- van Venrooij, A., & Schmutz, V. (2010). The evaluation of popular music in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands: a comparison of the use of high art and popular aesthetic criteria. Cultural Sociology, 4(3), 395-421. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975510385444 [details]
2009
- van Venrooij, A. (2009). Classifications in popular music: discourses and meaning structures in American, Dutch and German popular music reviews. Rotterdam: Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture.
- van Venrooij, A. (2009). The aesthetic discourse space of popular music: 1985-86 and 2004-05. Poetics, 37(4), 315-332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2009.06.005 [details]
2023
- van Venrooij, A., & Wilderom, R. (2023). The dynamics of dance: An early history of electronic dance music. In A. Bennett (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture (pp. 257-280). (Bloomsbury Handbooks). Bloomsbury Academic. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501333729.ch-013 [details]
2018
- van Venrooij, A. (2018). The French Alternative to Bourdieu? Hennion, Actor-Network Theory, and the Sociology of Mediation. Contemporary Sociology, 47(4), 408-412. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306118779812 [details]
2015
- van Venrooij, A., & Schmutz, V. (2015). Classifications in popular music. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (2 ed., Vol. 3, pp. 799-804). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.10435-0 [details]
2021
- van Venrooij, A. (2021). Book Review: “Measuring Culture”: [Review of: J.W. Mohr, C. Bail, M. Fryre, J. Lena, O. Lizardo, T. McDonnell, A. Mische, I. Tavory & F. Wherry (2020) Measuring Culture]. ASA Sociology Culture Section Newsletter, 35(5), 13-15. https://asaculturesection.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/spring-2021-culture-section-newsletter-vol.-35-issue-5-1.pdf [details]
2013
- van Venrooij, A. (2013). And the winner is... In F. Wekker, R. Voss, S. Holla, J. Pach, J. Kesic, & C. de Olde (Eds.), Verleider & verlichter: columns voor Bart van Heerikhuizen (pp. 62-63). Diemen: AMB. [details]
2012
- van Venrooij, A. (2012). Dance in de VS en Europa. #kijkSW, 2012(4 (dec.)).
2008
- van Venrooij, A. (2008). Cultuursociologie studeren in de Verenigde Staten. Sociologie, 4(2-3), 225-228. http://www.boomlemmatijdschriften.nl/tijdschrift/sociologie/2008/2-3/Sociologie_2008_004_002_011 [details]
Prize / grant
- van Venrooij, A. T. (2013). The Dynamics of Genres: A Comparative Study of the Success and Failure of Electronic Dance Music in the US, UK and the Netherlands.
Journal editor
- van Venrooij, A. (editor) (2021-2023). Poetics (Journal).
- van Venrooij, A. (member of editorial board) (2018-2021). Poetics (Journal).
- van Venrooij, A. (member of editorial board) (2015-2018). Poetics (Journal).
- van Venrooij, A. T. (editor) (2015). Poetics (Journal).
- van Venrooij, A. T. (editor) (2011). Sociologie (Journal).
- van Venrooij, A. T. (editor) (2010). Sociologie (Journal).
Talk / presentation
- van Venrooij, A. (speaker) (20-8-2016). Harmonizing forms of legitimacy in the consecration of popular music, 111the ASA Annual Meeting, August 20-23, 2016, Seattle, United States, Seattle.
- van Venrooij, A. (invited speaker) (16-8-2014). Modeling an ecology of music genres using big data: the case of the emergence of electronic dance music genres in the UK, 1985-1999, 109th ASA Annual Meeting, August 16-19, 2014, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco.
- van Venrooij, A. (invited speaker) & Schmutz, V. (invited speaker) (7-11-2012). ‘Competition, consensus and consecration in popular music’, Reconnaissance et Consécration Artistiques, GRESCO, Université de Poitiers (France).
- van Venrooij, A. (invited speaker) & Schmutz, V. (invited speaker) (17-8-2012). 'Logics and consequences of boundary crossing in the field of popular music’, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, United States.
- van Venrooij, A. T. (invited speaker) & Schmutz, V. (invited speaker) (18-6-2008). The aesthetic discourse space of popular music: 2005, Classification in the Arts and Media. The Impact of Commercialization and Globalization, Rotterdam.
Others
- van Venrooij, A. (organiser) (18-6-2023 - 20-6-2023). Nagymaros 2023, Amsterdam. Nagymaros 2023 (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- van Venrooij, A. (member of programme committee) (19-6-2022 - 22-6-2022). Nagymaros 2022, Berlin. Nagymaros 2022 (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- van Venrooij, A. (organiser) & Berkers, P. (organiser) (14-6-2018). The Sociology of Music. Session organized at Dag van de Sociologie, Rotterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- De Keere, K. (organiser), Weenink, D. (organiser), Velthuis, O. J. M. (organiser) & van Venrooij, A. T. (organiser) (19-6-2017 - 20-6-2017). Cultural Sociology Lowlands, 2017, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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Ancillary activities
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Punt, M. B., & van Venrooij, A. (2021). Signals in the Waves of Surf: Category Development and Signals in Surf Music. Sociological Perspectives, 64(3), 387-410. Advance online publication.