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Sam de Boise

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Music, Theatre and Art

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Musicology

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About Sam de Boise

Sam de Boise is a Senior Lecturer and Docent in Musicology, as well as Head of Research. He worked as a media researcher from 2008-2009 before completing his PhD in Sociology at the University of Leeds in 2012. From 2012-2014 he worked as a teaching fellow in Sociology and Social Psychology in the Department of Sociology, at the University of York. He joined The School of Music, Theatre and Art at Örebro University in August 2014.

Sam de Boise writes on music and gender, gender equality in relation to music and the sociology of music.He is the author of Men, Masculinity, Music and Emotions (2015) and co-editor of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies.

Sam currently teaches on the Music Education and Music, Culture and Media programs within the department and is the program coordinator for the Masters in Musicology - Music and Human Beings program.

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Publications

Articles in journals

Wojnicka, K. & de Boise, S. (2025). Caring Masculinities: Rethinking the Concept. Men and Masculinities. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2025). Gender disparities in music education and music-making amongst the Swedish adult population. Nordic Research in Music Education, 6, 1-27. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2024). Enculturating men, cultivating masculinity. Norma, 19 (2), 57-62. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2024). Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right. European Journal of Cultural Studies. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2024). What does research-led teaching mean for music performance programs? Students and educators perspectives from Swedish higher music education. International Journal of Music Education. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2023). Varför påverkar musiken människor?. Ikaros: tidskrift om människan och vetenskapen, 20 (4), 29-33. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2022). Changing men, changing masculinities. Norma, 17 (4), 213-218. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2022). Digitalization and the Musical Mediation of Anti-Democratic Ideologies in Alt-Right Forums. Popular music and society, 45 (1), 48-66. [BibTeX]
Wojnicka, K. , Mellström, U. & de Boise, S. (2022). On war, hegemony and (political) masculinities. Norma, 17 (2), 83-87. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2021). Music and misogyny: A content analysis of misogynistic, antifeminist forums. Popular Music, 39 (3-4), 459-481. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2021). Thinking about risk and vulnerability in CSMM. Norma, 16 (3), 139-143. [BibTeX]
Werner, A. , Gadir, T. & de Boise, S. (2020). Broadening research in gender and music practice. Popular Music, 39 (3-4), 636-651. [BibTeX]
Lindblad, K. & de Boise, S. (2020). Musical engagement and subjective wellbeing amongst men in the third age. Nordisk tidskrift for musikkterapi - Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 29 (1), 20-38. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. & McClary, S. (2019). An Interview with Professor Susan McClary: The Development of Research on Gender and Music. Per Musi: Scholarly Music Journal, 39. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2019). Editorial: is masculinity toxic?. Norma, 14 (3), 147-151. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2019). Tackling gender inequalities in music: A comparative study of policy responses in the UK and Sweden. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25 (4), 486-499. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2018). Gender Inequalities and Higher Music Education: Comparing the UK and Sweden. British Journal of Music Education, 35 (1), 23-41. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2018). The personal is political … just not always progressive: Affective interruptions and their promise for CSMM. Norma, 13 (3-4), 158-174. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. & Hearn, J. (2017). Are men getting more emotional?: Critical sociological perspectives on men, masculinities and emotions. Sociological Review, 65 (4), 779-796. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2016). Contesting ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ difference in emotions through music use in the UK. Journal of Gender Studies, 25 (1), 66-84. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2016). Post-Bourdieusian Moments and Methods in Music Sociology: Toward a Critical, Practice-Based Approach. Cultural Sociology, 10 (2), 178-194. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2015). I’m Not Homophobic, “I’ve Got Gay Friends”: Evaluating the Validity of Inclusive Masculinity. Men and Masculinities, 18 (3), 318-339. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2014). Cheer up emo kid: rethinking the ‘crisis of masculinity’ in emo. Popular Music, 33 (2), 225-242. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2014). Learning to Be Affected: Masculinities, Music and Social Embodiment. Sociological Research Online, 19 (2). [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2013). Patriarchy and the Crisis of Masculinity. New Left Project. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2012). The Coming Crisis?: Some Questions for the Future of Empirical Sociology in the UK. Graduate Journal of Social Science, 9 (2), 40-64. [BibTeX]

Articles, book reviews

de Boise, S. (2023). Gender Issues in Scandinavian Music Education: From Stereotypes to Multiple Possibilities. Nordic Research in Music Education, 4, 35-41. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2021). Book Review: Young Men Navigating Contemporary Masculinities. Men and Masculinities, 24 (5), 904-905. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2018). Book Review: Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture: An Intersectional Approach to the Complexities and Challenges of Male Identity. Men and Masculinities, 21 (5), 759-761. [BibTeX]

Books

de Boise, S. (2015). Men, masculinity, music and emotions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]

Chapters in books

de Boise, S. , Goedecke, K. & Hearn, J. (2025). Masculinities. In: J. H. Mills; A. J. Mills; K. S. Williams; R. Bendl, Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Management (pp. 296-301). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. , Goedecke, K. & Hearn, J. (2025). Masculinities. In: Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills, Kristin S. Williams and Regine Bendl, Elgar Encyclopedia on Gender in Management (pp. 296-301). . Edward Elgar Publishing. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2024). Sociala ojämlikheter när musik skapas och värderas. In: Eva Georgii-Hemming, Nadia Moberg, Makt: När musik och människor möts (pp. 129-139). Örebro: Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2024). Socio-Economic Background and Today’s Higher Music Education Institutions. In: Christa Brüstle, Lucia Di Cecca, Itziar Larrinaga, Mojca Piškor, Eva Sæther and David-Emil Wickström, Music, Power Relations and Beyond: Critical Positions in Higher Music Education (pp. 129-138). San Sebastián: Musikene. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2023). Emotions and affect in organizing men and masculinity/ies. In: Jeff Hearn, Kadri Aavik, David L. Collinson, Anika Thym, Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. London: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Hearn, J. , de Boise, S. & Goedecke, K. (2023). Men and Masculinities: Structures, Practices, and Identities. In: Eileen L. Zurbriggen; Rose Capdevila, The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology (pp. 193-213). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. , Edmond, M. & Strong, C. (2022). Gender and Popular Music Policy. In: Shane Homan, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2022). The Affective Appeal of Nature for Masculinist Movements. In: Ulf Mellström and Bob Pease, Posthumanism and the Man Question: Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities (pp. 21-32). Abingdon: Routledge. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2020). Men, masculinities and music. In: Lucas Gottzén, Ulf Mellström, Tamara Shefer, Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies (pp. 414-424). London: Routledge. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2019). Gender Mainstreaming in the Music Industries: Perspectives from Sweden and the UK. In: Catherine Strong and Sarah Raine, Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry: Education, Practice and Strategies for Change (pp. 117-130). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2019). The Performing Rights of Man: The Global Music Industries and Transnational Hegemonies of Men. In: Jeff Hearn, Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, Marina Hughson, Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Dispersed Centres, Gender Power, Contradictions (pp. 155-171). Abingdon: Routledge. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. & Dobre Billström, R. (2016). Playing with Gender: Toward Critical, Transnational Perspectives on Music and Gender. In: Antenor Ferreira Corrêa, Music in an intercultural perspective (pp. 25-40). Brasilia: Strong Edições. [BibTeX]

Conference papers

de Boise, S. (2024). “A Change is Gonna Come”?: Changing Music, Changing Masculinities. Paper presented at Masculinity, Emotion and Popular Music, Concordia University, Canada 5th April 2024. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. , Dobre Billström, R. , Georgii-Hemming, E. & Moberg, N. (2024). Power Relations in Music Society: the Elite and the Underprivileged. Paper presented at Gendering Music Matter. Power, Affects, and Infrastructures of Music Industries, the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, 13–15 March 2024. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2023). Sounds Extreme?: Music Engagement Amongst the Contemporary Radical Right. Paper presented at Musikforskning idag, Stockholm, 13-15 juni, 2023. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2017). Addressing Gender Inequalities in Music: Sweden as a Comparative Case Study. Paper presented at International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM Norden), Popular Music in the Nordic Countries, Oslo, Norway, September 14, 2017. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2017). Bored of Bourdieu?: On the Limits of Bourdieusian Approaches to Music Sociology. In: Beyond Bourdieu? International Symposium, 22nd - 24th September 2017, Delmenhorst, Germany. Abstracts. Paper presented at Beyond Bourdieu? International Symposium. Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Institute for Advanced Studies, Delmenhorst, Germany, September 22-24, 2017. (pp. 3-4). [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2017). Fighting Gender Inequalities in Music: Comparing the UK and Sweden. In: Julia Merrill and Jan Hemming, Popular Music Studies Today Abstracts for the conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, June 26-30, Kassel, Germany. Paper presented at 19th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Studies of Popular Music, Kassel, Germany, June 26–30, 2017. (pp. 136-137). [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2017). Gender Inequalities in Higher Music Education: Comparing the UK and Sweden. In: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Nordic Network for Research in Music Education, March 14-16 2017 Abstracts, Senior research, NNMPF 2017. Paper presented at 22nd Annual Conference of the Nordic Network for Research in Music Education, Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 14-16, 2017. (pp. 19-21). [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2017). The Personal is Political … just not Always Progressive: Affective Interruptions and their Promise for CSMM. Paper presented at Masculinities and Affect, Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, USA, April 6-7, 2017. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. , Hearn, J. & King, M. (2016). Critical Perspectives on Men and Masculinity in Popular Music : An All-Male Gender-Critical Panel. Paper presented at Gender and Music: Practices, Performances, Politics Conference, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, March 16-18, 2016. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2016). Gender Equality in Music: A Comparison of the UK and Sweden. Paper presented at Gender and Music: Practices, Performances, Politics, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, March 16-18, 2016. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2016). Post Bourdieusian Moments and Methods in Sociologies of Music. In: Global Societies: Fragmenting and Connecting BSA Annual Conference 2016, Aston University, Birmingham, Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 April 2016. Paper presented at Societies in Transition: Progression or Regression? BSA Annual Conference. Aston University, England 6th-8th April 2016. (pp. 258-258). BSA Publications Ltd.. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. & Hearn, J. (2016). 'The Expressive Male': Thinking Critically about Emotions in Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities. In: The 7th Midterm Conference on Emotions, Stockholm Abstracts. Paper presented at 7th Midterm Conference of the ESA RN Sociology of Emotions, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, August 25-27, 2016. (pp. 18-18). [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2016). The Personal is Political … just not Always Progressive: Thinking and Re-Thinking Men and Emotions. In: Global Societies: Fragmenting and Connecting BSA Annual Conference 2016, Aston University, Birmingham, Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 April 2016. Paper presented at Societies in Transition: Progression or Regression? BSA Annual Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, England, April 6-8, 2016. (pp. 79-79). BSA Publications Ltd.. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. , Varkøy, Ø. , Rolle, C. & Georgii-Hemming, E. (2015). Contesting the Concept of ‘Activism’ in Music Education. Paper presented at 19th conference of Nordic Network for Research in Music Education (NNMPF 2015), Activism in Music Education, Helsinki, Finland, March 3-5, 2015. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2015). Cultural Capital and Music in the UK and Sweden: Exploring Class and Gender Inequalities. In: Societies in transition Progression or regression? : BSA Annual Conference 2015. Paper presented at British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2015, Societies in Transition: Progression or Regression? Glasgow, UK, April 15-17, 2015. Durham: British Sociological Association. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. & Conway, D. (2015). Declining Homophobia, ‘Softening’ Masculinity and Liberalism in the UK: Evaluating the Evidence. Paper presented at 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender, Uppsala, Sweden, June 11-13, 2015. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2015). Music Participation Matters: Gender Inequalities and Higher Education Music Course Selection in the UK and Sweden. Paper presented at International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education (ISSME2015), Loyola University, New Orleans, USA, June 14-17, 2015. [BibTeX]

Other

de Boise, S. (2022). Socio-Economic Background and Today’s HMEIs. [BibTeX]
de Boise, S. (2021). Music and Online Far-Right Extremism. [BibTeX]