PhD student Birgitte Sandve has been interviewed by one of Norway’s leading music journals Ballade.

For interview click here!

An international symposium, the main event of the popular music project I am currently leading, financed by the Research Council of Norway, took place from 4-7 June 2013, and was attended by delegates working in Scandinavia, Germany, the UK, Canada and the USA.

For specific information regarding the program, see Oslo Symposium June 2013.

Dr. Nina Sun Eidsheim, Assistant Professor, Dept. Musicology, UCLA

Paper: Rethinking Jimmy Scott versus Black Masculinity Through the Figure of Vibration

This forthcoming week the project I’m leading will hold an international symposium which brings together leading academics form the USA, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Ireland and Norway.

The research project Popular Music and Gender in a Transcultural Context will host an international symposium on the subject of popular music and gender. The event will take place at the Institute of musicology on June 4th. Two international guests have been invited to give key-note lectures, profesor Will Straw (McGill University) and professor Barbara Bradby (Trinity College). Stan Hawkins and Mats Johansson will also contribute.

On 4 June the symposium will open at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, with the following line up:

14.00 Welcome address by Head of Departement, Alexander Refsum Jensenius, and introduction by Project Leader, Stan Hawkins

Newly appointed General Editor for the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. In the first instance I will be co-editor with Professor Derek Scott until 2015 on his retirement.

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