Sandra Bogdanovic, MA

Professional experience

Since September 2025
Research Fellow, State Institute for Music Research
DFG project ‘Zweite Weltmusik’

February 2025–January 2026
Archivist, German Broadcasting Archive (ARD)

September 2024–September 2025
Podcast and editorial work, The Orbit

February 2024–July 2024
Project Assistant, D&AD Shift Germany

April 2019–October 2022
Music licensing, Boosey & Hawkes

Higher education

MA in Musicology
Humboldt University of Berlin
Specialisms: popular music, copyright law, music psychology

Diploma in Music Ethnology
Faculty of Musical Arts, University of the Arts, Belgrade

BA in Modern Music and Jazz
Liceu Conservatory, Barcelona

Theses

MA thesis
Mobility Impacts on the Musical Self in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin. From the Theoretical Perspectives of Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism and Translocality

Diploma thesis
Sav taj etno-džez. Prilog proučavanju savremene urbane tradicije
(All That Ethno-Jazz. A Contribution to the Study of Contemporary Urban Tradition)

Lectures

November 2026 (announced)
Beyond the Open Scene: Mobility, Belonging and Cosmopolitan Music-Making in Berlin – Most Wanted: Music Conference, Berlin

October 2026 (announced)
Cosmopolitan by Condition: Music, Migration and the Politics of Urban Musical Life in Berlin’s Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg– University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

Memberships

DVSM Research Group on Music and Intermediality

Sandra Bogdanovic, M.A.

Research Associate

+49 30 254 81 130

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Research interests

  • Translocality, Mobility and Musical Identity
  • A music anthropological approach to music production and technology
  • Gender, Gatekeeping and the Infrastructure of the Music Industry