Aesthetics, Culture and Media (ACCLAIM)
About this team
Team information
The Aesthetics, Culture and Media (ACCLAIM) research group looks at how culture and societal norms and values affect people's music habits, personal experiences, musical learning and music education. Research conducted within the group explores issues of: music and equality (looking especially at gender, class, nationality and ethnicity); music, social media and digitization; and musical didactics and education. The group fosters critical analysis and critical discussion using interdisciplinary musicological theory, combined with a particular focus on philosophical, cultural-theoretical and didactic perspectives.
Recent publications:
Georgii-Hemming, E. , Johansson, K. & Moberg, N. (2020). Reflection in Higher Music Education: What, Why, Wherefore?. Music Education Research.
Lilliedahl, J. (2020). Specialised music classes in comprehensive education: a case study of the Swedish shift from social-democratic uniformity to neoliberal diversity. Journal of Educational Administration & History.
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.
Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2019). Touching from A Distance: Imagining Marit Larsen in Queer Spaces. Radical Musicology, 7.
Lebedinski, E. (2020). The Travels of a Tune: Purcell’s "If love’s a sweet passion’" and the Cultural Translation of English Seventeenth-Century Music. Early music 48(1), 75–90.
Volgsten, U. (2019). A technology and its vicissitudes: playing the gramophone in Sweden 1903–1945. Popular Music, 38 (2), 219–236.
Researchers
- Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik
- Annika Danielsson
- Sam de Boise
- Eva Georgii-Hemming
- Jonathan Lilliedahl
- Ulrik Volgsten
- Maria Westvall
- Safa Canalp, PhD student
- Rebecca Dobre Billström, PhD student
- Christina Larsson, PhD student
- Samuel Lindlöf, PhD student
- Nadia Moberg, PhD student
- Yiren Zhao, PhD student
- Jonas Ålander, PhD student
Research 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
- Cultural diversity within Music teacher education in Sweden - wishful thinking or possible future?
- Discourses of Academization and the Music Profession in Higher Music Education (DAPHME)
- Everyday Devices. Mediatisation, Disciplining and Localisation of Music in Sweden 1900-1970
- Feminist activism and commitment to change in music
- Improvisation in music education in primary school.
- Music, Identity and Multiculturalism: A study of the role of music in ethnic-based associations
- Processes of Intercultural Learning: Research, Online Collaboration, and Musical Immersion in Brazil and Sweden
- Shaping Musics Meaning: A Comparative Study of Music Subcultures in Beijing and Stockholm
- Subcultural Transfer: Indie Music in Turkey
- The Voices of Women
