Stan Hawkins

Professor Emeritus
University of Oslo, Norway

I am now in a new period of developing a EU-prestigious project dealing with the ‘musicalized body’ in a mediatized context. The research objective will involve considering how audiovisual representations (as in pop videos) impact on our cultures and societies. A prime concern of mine is to develop a vocabulary within musicology for accounting for […]
How can sounds be queer? What is the relationship between such sounds and the spaces in which they resound and which they represent? How are gender and sexuality related to sonic queerness and its spatial dimensions? Are media representations of queer constituencies, both sexual and gendered, clichéd, transgressive, or neither of these alternatives? For the […]
One of my recent Master degree students has contributed to a very important critical study on the politics concerning Rock City in Namsos. Here is a link to an article that has come out in Adressavisen.   Kommunikasjonssvikt