Aesthetics, Culture and Media (ACCLAIM)
About this group
Group information
Aesthetics, Culture and Media (ACCLAIM) focuses on how culture and society; Norms and values affect music habits, music practices, musical learning and music education.
The group conducts research in problem areas such as music, equality and justice (regarding factors such as gender, class and ethnicity); music and media, as well as music didactics and education.
Selected recent publications:
- Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2026). The Complexity of Banality: Neoclassicism and Popular Music in Pauline Hall’s "Suite for Wind Quintet". European Perspectives on the New Objectivity Movement: Entanglements of Music, Poetics, and Ideas in the Interwar Years. Eds. Zucconi, B & Volgsten, U. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 129–145.
- Georgii-Hemming, E. & Moberg, N. (2026). Relations Matter: Music Education Research Beyond the Self. Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education, 25 (2), 98-123.
- de Boise, S. (2025). "The appeal of musical masculinism within contemporary online far-right spaces." Journal of Gender Studies: 1-14. [advance online publication].
- Dobre Billström, R. & Peltola, H. (2025). The work-family reconciliation of self-employed musicians: A scoping review. Music Research Today, Örebro, October 22–24.
- Volgsten, U. (2025). Solitary Listening, Copyright and Reification during the Interwar Years: A Discourse Theoretic Approach. Twentieth Century Music, 22(2), pp. 171–192.
- Han, J. & Zappavigna, M. (2024). Multimodal rhythm in TikTok videos: Exploring a recontextualization of the Gillard ‘misogyny speech’. Multimodality & Society, 4(1), pp. 58–79.
Research projects
Active projects
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
- 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 Musical Engagements. The Struggle Against Gender Inequalities in Music-Making Practices
- 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
- 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 learning musician. A study about Military Musicians and their musical and educational development in a life-span musicianship
- 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
- 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).
