Music and Human Beings
Music and Human Beings studies the relationship to music – as an individual, social and cultural phenomenon. Research within the environment deals with the role of music in both everyday and institutional contexts, among young people and adults, professionals and amateurs, and in all forms of music performance and use.
Research
Our research moves in problem areas such as music, experience and experience; music, equality and justice; music and media; music, education and training, as well as musical creation. Characteristic of our research is the relationship between music, man and society, and between music and the individual. Music and Human Beings is an interdisciplinary environment characterized by a multidisciplinary perspective, where social science and humanistic approaches meet.
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Research news in Musicology
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European Perspectives on the New Objectivity Movement – Entanglements of Music, Poetics, and Ideas in the Interwar Years
This edited volume offers a new perspective on the new objectivity movement in music during the interwar period, challenging the view of it as a solely German or Berlin-based movement.
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Music researchers receive 4.7 million SEK for research on power and inequality in the music sector
Eva Georgii-Hemming, professor in Musicology at Örebro University, receives SEK 4.7 million from the Swedish Research Council. During the period 2025–2028, she will, together with Nadia Moberg, senior lecturer in Music education, carry out the research...
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Gender disparities in music education and music-making amongst the Swedish adult population
A recently published article in the scientific online journal Nordic Research in Music Education shows the gender-based differences that exist in music-making among the Swedish population today. Sam de Boise, Senior Lecturer and Docent of Musicology at...
