Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik
Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Music, Theatre and ArtEmail: mikkel.broch-alvik@oru.se
Phone: +46 19 302333
Room: M3210
About Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik
Mikkel Broch Ålvik holds MA and PhD degrees in musicology from the University of Oslo. He specialises in critical musicology and popular music studies, and his teaching and research are characterised by an interdisciplinary approach that links musicology with gender, media, and identity studies.
Ålvik’s chief musicological interests are the broad field of popular music, identity politics, authenticity, theatricality, the music industry, critical historiography, and mediation. He researches into questions of musical taste, genre, language, gender and sexuality and the relationship/s between music and technology, with the voice as a central topic of interest.
He also researches into questions of Nordic music and identity, and he is an associated member of the Nordic Sounds critical research group at the University of Oslo.
In addition to his scholarly background, Ålvik also has several years’ experience as a musician in the fields of jazz, rock, and classical music. He has also worked in various capacities in the media, notably as a sub-editor and copy-editor for a range of newspapers, magazines, and publishing houses.
In spring 2024, Ålvik is the principal lecturer in Örebro University’s BA program, Musik, kultur och medier (Music, Culture, and the Media). He teaches the programme courses in popular music (Popular music, gender and identification; Popular music, historiography and mythology; Mediatization; and Music and Multimedia) in Musik, kultur och medier Year 1, Aesthetics, Music industry analysis and Methodology and academic writing in Year 2, and Theory and philosophy of science in Year 3. Moreover, he teaches popular music history in the courses, Musik för lärare IV, Musikproduktion IV, and Verktyg i Jazz och Rock II; literature, interpretation and research methodology in Musikproduktion II, and philosophy of science and discourse analysis in the MA programme in musicology. He also supervises students’ theses in the BA and MA programmes.
Selected Publications
Broch Ålvik, Jon Mikkel. 2021. "The Pleasure(s) of the Pop Text: Subversion and Theatricality in Cloroform and Tove Lo." In Popular Musicology and Identity: Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins, ed. Kai Arne Hansen, Eirik Askerøi, and Freya Jarman, pp. 82-96. London: Routledge.
Broch Ålvik, Jon Mikkel. 2020. "Kuuk, Skrap, and the Resistance Vernacular." Nordlit, no. 46 (November), pp. 303-317. https://doi.org/10.7557/13.5490
Hawkins, Stan, and Broch Ålvik, Jon Mikkel. 2019. "A-ha's 'Take on Me': Melody, Vocal Compulsion, and Rotoscoping." In The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches, ed. Ciro Scotto, Kenneth Smith, and John Brackett, pp. 77-94. London: Routledge.
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2020). Kuuk, Skrap, and the Resistance Vernacular. Nordlit, 46, 303-317.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2019). Touching from A Distance: Imagining Marit Larsen in Queer Spaces. Radical Musicology, 7.
Articles, book reviews
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2019). Made in Sweden: Studies in popular music. Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning.
Chapters in books
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2021). The Pleasure(s) of the Pop Text: Subversion and Theatricality in Cloroform and Tove Lo. In: Kai Arne Hansen, Eirik Askerøi, Freya Jarman, Popular Musicology and Identity: Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins (pp. 82-96). London & New York: Routledge.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. & Hawkins, S. (2019). A-ha's "Take on Me": Melody, Vocal Compulsion, and Rotoscoping. In: Ciro Scotto, Kenneth Smith, John Brackett, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (pp. 77-94). New York and London: Routledge.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2017). Armed with the Faith of a Child: Marit Larsen and Strategies of Faking. In: Stan Hawkins, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender (pp. 253-266). London: Routledge.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2013). Det vi ser og det vi ikke ser: Nærhet og avstand hos Marit Larsen og Marion Ravn. In: I Dreamt I Was A Real Boy: Ei utstilling om kjønn i norsk pop og rock (pp. 43-48). Trondheim: Museumsforlaget AS.
Conference papers
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2023). "I Hate Vanilla": BDSM, populærmusikk og det dobbelte blikket. Paper presented at 11th Annual Kinkferanse, Kristiansand, Norway, October 6-8, 2023.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2022). Framing Tix: Musical persona and meaning-making within and across genres. Paper presented at New Perspectives in Popular Music Research: Changes and Turmoil Conference 2022: The University of Agder, Kristiansand/Norway, June 1–2, 2022.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2022). Russelåter og raggarmusik: Et analytisk blikk på Tix’ norsk-svenske samarbeid. In: Musikforskning idag 2022 13–15 juni 2022 Program och abstrakt. Paper presented at Musikforskning idag-2022, Falun, 13-15 juni, 2022. Svenska samfundet för musikforskning.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2019). Between noises: Public spaces, the presence of noise and musical self-care. In: Calvo-Manzano A.,Delgado A.,Perez-Lopez A.,Santiago J.S., INTER-NOISE 2019 MADRID 48th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering2019. Paper presented at The 49th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering (INTER-NOISE 2019), Madrid, Spain, June 16-19, 2019. SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA DE ACUSTICA - Spanish Acoustical Society, SEA.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2019). “I do not have an image, I am just who I am”: Marit Larsen, persona and authenticity in popular music. Paper presented at Inaugural International Persona Studies Conference, Newcastle, UK, June 25-26, 2019.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2016). “What’s gender got to do with it?” Marit Larsen, Marion Ravn, and Stereotypes of Femininity. Paper presented at GeMUS – Gender and Music: Practices, Performances, Politics, Örebro, Sweden, March 16-18, 2016.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2014). Scratching the Surface: Marit Larsen and Marion Ravn – Staging Authenticity, Faking Naïvety and Flaunting Banality. Paper presented at 50th Annual Conference of The Royal Musical Association, Leeds, UK, September 4-6, 2014.
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2014). The Right to Perform: Simon Frith’s Performing Rites, Anglo-Centrism, and Popular Music. Paper presented at Studying Music - An International Conference in Honour of Simon Frith, Edinburgh, UK, April 10-12, 2014.