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.
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. (2024). Solitary Listening, Copyright, and Reification during the Interwar Years : A Discourse Theoretic Approach Twentieth Century Music (1), 1–22.
Research projects
Active projects
- Cultural diversity within Music teacher education in Sweden - wishful thinking or possible future?
- Music and Far-Right Extremism Online (MuREX)
- 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).
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
- 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
