Publications
-Barna, E. 2022. Between cultural policies, industry structures and the household: A feminist perspective on digitalization and musical careers in Hungary. Popular Music and Society 45(1): 67–83. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03007766.2021.1984022
-Barna, E. & Á. Patakfalvi-Czirják. 2022. The 'System of National Cooperation' hit factory: The aesthetic of Hungarian government-commissioned songs between 2010–2020. Popular Music 1–21 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/system-of-national-cooperation-hit-factory-the-aesthetic-of-hungarian-governmentcommissioned-songs-between-2010-and- 2020/6BEA79C3F7BC1433754415882BCED208
-Barna, E. & Á. Patakfalvi-Czirják. 2022. 'We are of one blood': Hungarian popular music, nationalism and the trajectory of the song "Nélküled" through radicalization, folklorization and consecration. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 30(2): 217–235. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/25739638.2022.2089388
-Barna, E. 2017. 'The perfect guide in a crowded musical landscape:' Online music platforms and curatorship. First Monday 22(4). https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6914
Projects
-2022-2024 MUSICSTREAM - "Music Culture in the Age of Streaming". Role: Academic advisory board member. Funder: European Research Council.
-2019–2022 Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe (ref. 94,754). Role: Country PI. Funder: Volkswagen Stiftung.
-2018–2022 Creative Labor in the Hungarian Music Industry (NKFIH FK_18). Role: Project leader. Funder: National Research, Development and Innovation Office.
-2012-2013 Innovative Media and Music Heritage Impacting Vocational Education. Role: Researcher. Funding scheme: Leonardo Partnership. Funder: European Commission.
Conferences
Conferences co-organized:
-2022 Culture during the time of the digital revolution 4: Pop culture and politics. Budapest, 17–18 February 2021. Organizers: BME Department of Sociology and Communication and ELTE Department of Media and Communication.
-2020 Gender and Creativity in Music Worlds: MusicaFemina International Symposium Budapest. CEU, 8-9 January 2020.
-2017 Communicating Music Scenes: Networks, Power, Technology. Budapest, 19-20 May 2017. Organizers: Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, IASPM Hungary and BME Department of Sociology and Communication.
Other activities
2022– Routledge "Music and Politics" book series editor
2017– Member of the Working Group for Public Sociology "Situation"
2012– Advisory board member of IASPM Journal
2010–2022 Member of IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music) Hungary. Treasurer between 2010–2013. Chair between 2013–2017.
2005– Member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). Treasurer between 2015–2017.