Popular Music & Gender in a Transcultural Context
This project focuses on how gender is significantly influenced by music, with specific emphasis placed upon the transcultural aspects of popular music in contemporary societies.
A word cloud of the project's current research material.
About the project
The project is the first of its kind in Europe to focus primarily on music as a gendered activity within a mobile transcultural context.
It seeks to critically examine a range of case studies from Norwegian everyday musical life as well as other countries within and outside Europe.
The project considers the audiovisual representation of music as a dominant facet of cultural expression through the channels of art, television, commercials, Internet, music videos and digital games.
Objectives
Three main goals underpin the project:
- To develop theories that identify gendered performance within a transcultural context
- To research into and devise methods for defining different forms of performance activity with a specific focus on Norwegian artists
- To produce new insights into issues of gender equality that are critically informed what is going on in globalised popular culture.
Background
Popular Music & Gender in a Transcultural Context is an interdisciplinary project and involves linking a musicological inquiry to the border disciplines of sociology, media studies, gender studies and social anthropology.
This project builds on a tradition of international research already undertaken at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, where the study of popular music has been a major area of scholarly development during the past twenty years.
Financing
Popular Music & Gender in a Transcultural Context is jointly funded by The Research Council of Norway under the program FRIHUM, and the
