Musicology
About
Subject information
The function of musicology is to explore music and musical knowledge, as well as to analyse the types of music education and artistic creation that have existed and currently take place across different societies. Musicological research therefore links to humanistic and social scientific research on people's perceptions of the world. At Örebro University, an interdisciplinary approach to musicology is important to our research agenda. Our work connects to theories and empirical studies in a wide range of disciplines: for example sociology, media and communication studies, philosophy, (music) education, and ethnology.
Musicology at Örebro University deals with issues of music as a cultural and social phenomenon, focusing on the importance of music and music's function for people, both within and outside educational institutions. As outlined in our research profile, we study: music, experience and experiential practice; music and equality (focusing particularly on issues around gender, class, nationality and ethnicity); music and media; music education and training; and musical creation. Fundamental questions around how culture and society affect the terms and conditions of the relationship between music and humans are, therefore, vital to our research.
We study music as an individual, social and cultural phenomenon. The type of research carried out within musicology looks at people of all ages, whether professionals or amateurs, and is concerned with all forms of music and music performance, involving humans, in everyday life as well as in institutional contexts.
Research is conducted along two interrelated but distinct themes: ACCLAIM (Aesthetics, Culture and Media) and MOVE (Musical Expression and Experience). Within ACCLAIM, researchers study how culture, society, norms and values, influence musical practices, identification processes, and learning through music and music education. MOVE focuses on individuals' musical experience and artistic creativity. This research is concerned with art as a source of knowledge and experience, as well as how it is expressed in various contexts. The research projects linked to this theme study different forms of musical expression and artistic creation as activities, processes and meaningful phenomena carried out by humans.
An interdisciplinary musicology which looks specifically at how humans interact with music is important as it helps to inform and shape undergraduate education in various ways. This type of research also contributes to other areas of expertise such as: music and experience; music and social equality; music education and training; and artistic creation. Art can be a source of knowledge in and of itself. Yet scientific reflections on music and artistic expression, methods and functions in people's lives, can actually contribute to the revitalisation of artistic creation itself.
Researchers
- Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik
- Annika Danielsson
- Sam de Boise
- Eva Georgii-Hemming
- Joshua Han
- Peter Knudsen
- Ester Lebedinski
- Nadia Moberg
- Peter van Tour
- Ulrik Volgsten
- Martin Edin, PhD student
- Anna Englund Bohm, PhD student
- Moa Fröding, PhD student
- Nichelle Johansson, PhD student
- Samuel Lindlöf, PhD student
- Jennie Tiderman-Österberg, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- Cultural diversity within Music teacher education in Sweden - wishful thinking or possible future?
- Music and Right-Wing Radicalism in Contemporary Society
- Music, Power and Inequity
- Preludes and Fermatas: Aspects of Nineteenth Century Piano Improvisation in the Tradition of Carl Czerny and Franz Liszt
- The past as repeatable presence: how music changed from an ephemeral event to an ever accessible object (a comparison between Sweden and Italy during the interwar years).
- The Voices of Women
Completed projects
- A Cross Cultural Exploration of Gendered Music Practices in the UK and Sweden
- Academization of performing musician programs - re-/negotiations of knowledge and competence
- Articulations of Culturally Diverse Music Spaces in Sweden
- Discourses of Academization and the Music Profession in Higher Music Education (DAPHME)
- Dmitry Shostakovich and the Soviet state ideology
- Everyday Devices. Mediatisation, Disciplining and Localisation of Music in Sweden 1900-1970
- Feminist Musical Engagements. The Struggle Against Gender Inequalities in Music-Making Practices
- Interactive infant-directed singing as supportive music therapy for premature and term newborns during painful procedures
- Jenny Lind?s time as opera singer mainly during the 1840s
- Music and the Pedagogic Discourse : Recontextualisations and Codes
- Music education, quality and equality
- Music, Identity and Multiculturalism: A study of the role of music in ethnic-based associations
- Music, media and digitalisation
- Older men, music and health
- Ontology, Music, Education. Heideggerian inspirations
- Processes of Intercultural Learning: Research, Online Collaboration, and Musical Immersion in Brazil and Sweden
- Professional Knowledge in Music Teacher Education
- Shaping the Meaning of Chinese Music Subcultures
- Subcultural Transfer: Indie Music in Turkey
- The body, to make and to be in music: A phenomenological study
- The learning musician. A study about Military Musicians and their musical and educational development in a life-span musicianship
- The medieval mystery play as an artistic meeting place between popular and spiritual culture
- The Minorities in the Minority: A study of the role of music in the development of multicultural competence in Swedish-speaking schools in Finland
- The music of boys, the silence of reproduction