Biography
Jānis Daugavietis (Dr.Sc.Soc.) is a researcher at the Department of Arts, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia. He received a PhD in applied sociology from the University of Latvia in 2015. His main research interests are amateur arts, cultural policy, sociology of music and digital humanities.
Throughout the 1990s, Daugavietis was active in the Latvian underground music scene, playing music, taking photographs and producing music through the community and label Tornis Records. His current research in music focuses on the history of popular music in Soviet Latvia after Stalin and during late socialism (1956–1986), as well as the contemporary Rīga punk/DIY scene.