Search for dissertations about: "folk music"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words folk music.

  2. 1. Sensing Traditional Music Through Sweden's Zorn Badge : Precarious Musical Value and Ritual Orientation

    Author : Karin Eriksson; Lars Berglund; Dan Lundberg; Rachel Beckles Willson; Martin Stokes; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : traditional music; Sweden; folk music; music auditions; ritual; orientation; sensory ethnography; ethnomusicology; Musicology; Musikvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the multiple and contested spaces of belonging that may be evoked by ritualised musical performance. It makes an ethnographic case study of the Zorn Badge Auditions in Sweden, in which musicians play before a jury in the hope of being awarded a Zorn Badge and a prestigious but also contested title: Riksspelman. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Oral University. Attitudes to music teaching and learning in the Gambia

    Author : Eva Saether; Musikhögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; multicultural; Music education; intercultural; orality; jali; the Gambia; Pedagogik; Pedagogy and didactics; Teacher education; didaktik; Lärarutbildning;

    Abstract : The present study seeks to examine attitudes to teaching and learning among jalis in the Gambia. Although this is the main focus, the horizon of which the study is carried out, analysed and discussed, is the development of music teacher education in Sweden during the last three decades, and of which I have been a participant. READ MORE

  5. 3. Feminist musical engagements : The struggle against gender inequalities in music-making practices

    Author : Rebecca Dobre Billström; Sam de Boise; Eva Georgii-Hemming; Tiina Rosenberg; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Music-making; feminism; gender equality; affective solidarity; Swedish music;

    Abstract : The debate around gender equality and feminist concerns in relation to musical life are increasingly part of Swedish public discourse. Attention directed to structural gender inequalities in various music scenes by feminist associations, governmental intervention in these issues, and the recent #metoo-protests against sexual harassment and violence in the music industries, are all part of this. READ MORE

  6. 4. Music and media in local life : Music practice in a Newar neighbourhood in Nepal

    Author : Ingemar Grandin; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : The study concerns the medialization of local music practice, where music practice is taken to mean in what ways music resources- repertoires, instruments, ensembles, and so on-are used in performance and listening, and medialization the permeation by media and their contentsof life at large.The study is based upon 16 months' ethnomusicological fieldwork in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, in 1985-86, 1987 and 1988. READ MORE

  7. 5. Invoking the modal nymph: The emergence and dissemination of the concept of modality in Swedish folk music

    Author : Netta Huebscher; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish folk music; Modality; Neo-modality; Modal theory; Scale degree theory; Romanticism; Open concept;

    Abstract : Since the emergence of a concept of folk music, the study and practice of certain Western European musical traditions has been informed by notions of the music’s modality. Specifically, the idea that older or more indigenous layers of traditional repertoires manifest an underlying, pre-tonal structure of their own has been significant in scholarship, musical education, and performance. READ MORE