Visiting Professor in Music (Artistic Research)

We are very pleased to announce a new visiting professor (Professor II) will be affiliated with the Grieg Academy Music Education (GAME) research group over the next two years (2022-2024):

Stefan Ostersjo is known internationally as a guitarist and innovator in the application of artistic research methods to musical topics. Author of the book Listening to the Other, he specializes in intercultural music projects and interpretation of contemporary music, and frequently collaborates with composers and improvisers in experimental music projects. His research is published in Contemporary Music Review, Studies in Musical Theatre, Swedish Journal of Music Research, Frontiers of Psychology, and other journals.

 

Image sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing#/media/File:Lorenzo_Costa_-_Un_concerto_(National_Gallery,_London).jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-string_guitar#/media/File:ViolaDaMano_Raimondi_c1510.jpg

Visiting Professor in Music Education (Psychological Research)

We are very pleased to announce a new visiting professor (Professor II) will be affiliated with the Grieg Academy Music Education (GAME) research group over the next two years (2022-2024):

Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir is known internationally for her work on singing in early childhood, parent-infant singing, and music reading. Her research is published in such journals as Psychology of Music, Music Education Research, and Musicae Scientiae, and she co-edited volume II of the Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing. She is also the founding CEO of Tonagull, an Icelandic research-based music workshop method that is becoming popularized and exported to other European nations. 

Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choir#/media/File:54-aspetti_di_vita_quotidiana,_canto_in_chiesa,Taccuino_Sani.jpg

Understanding and Addressing Inequality

The 2022 Bergen Summer Research School, on the theme of Understanding and Addressing Inequality, will include our new PhD course Global Inequalities in Education and the Arts.

Click HERE for more information.

The deadline is February 1, 2022.

Music in a Concussive Monologue

The latest issue of Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy contains an article inspired by reflections on a complex experience from about five years ago. We believe it may be useful for those who study music cognition or who treat those with head injuries.

via GIPHY

Still image from: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PLoSBiol4.e126.Fig6fNeuron.jpg 

Oral History Discussions

Dr. Yang Yang at Education University of Hong Kong has just posted a brief interview based on questions that emerged in response to one of my earlier videos – “Oral History Methods for Sustaining Music Heritage in Education” – which was widely shared in China.

Click HERE to access the new Q&A session.

Click HERE to access an explanation and link to the original video (speech) that served as a basis for this Q&A session.

English versions are available on each of the above sites, but it is necessary to scroll to the bottom of each page.

Pictured above is a public domain image, a sketch of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, where western music was often performed before the palace grounds (including concert hall) were destroyed in 1860 during the Second Opium War.