Áine Mangaoang

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Áine Mangaoang is Associate Professor in Popular Music at the University of Oslo, who works at the intersections of music, cultural citizenship, and identity. She received her PhD in Music from the University of Liverpool, and before joining the University of Oslo, Áine has held academic posts at Listaháskóli Islands (Iceland University of the Arts), the Institute of Popular Music, Dublin City University, and University College Cork. 

Áine's first monograph Dangerous Mediations: Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video asks broader questions about the use of music as a form of discipline in the digital era, and received the 2021 International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch (IASPM-US) Woody Guthrie Prize for most outstanding book on popular music. Her second book, Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (with John O'Flynn & Lonán Ó Briain) is the first comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Irish popular music. She is currently working on her third book Sound and Detention: Towards critical listening, sonic citizenship, and social justice together with Lucy Cathcart Frödén and Kate Herrity. Other forthcoming work includes writing on interpreting music and multimodality for Deaf audiences through Irish Sign Language. 

She is currently Principal Investigator for the three-year project Prisons of Note: Mapping music and nuances in penal exceptionalism from the periphery funded by the Norwegian Research Council's Young Researcher Talent Award (2021-2025). Drawing from fieldwork in Norway, Iceland and the Republic of Ireland, the project examines the ways music is used – and is useful – in prison. 

Teaching & Supervision

Áine has served as course convenor for MUS2531 / MUS4531 Music and Media, and MUS4501 Aktuell musikkvitenskap "Popular Music & Dust: Archives, Memory, Heritage, Historiography" -- a collaborative course taught in partnership with the popular music archive in Nasjonabiblioteket (the National Library of Norway). She teaches the following courses: MUS2605 - Populærmusikkstudier (Popular Music Studies)MUS2445 - Musikkens historie (Music history)MUS4661: Nordic Music Histories, Genres, and Identities, and MUS4311 Music & Cultural Studies.

Áine has supervised Master's dissertations on ethnomusicology, popular music and media, music and (dis)ability, and music heritage topics, and is an actively mentor for  graduate researchers working in various popular music and musicology areas. She has served as supervisor and external examiner for graduate student theses on audiovisual media, app albums, popular music and politics, music and digital cultures, among other topics. Any prospective Master or PhD students interested in researching any of these or related areas are most welcome to be in touch to discuss their research ideas. 

Tags: Music and Media, Musicology, Media, Popular Music, Cultural history, Ethnomusicology, Music and Society, Music History, Nordic, Social media

Publications

  • Mangaoang, Áine Ryan (2024). Embodied Music: Interpreting Songs and Sounds through Irish Sign Language. Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. ISSN 1649-7341. doi: 10.35561/JSMI19.6. Full text in Research Archive
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2023). (Be)Longing: Irish Musicking and Place-Making in Oslo, Norway. In Pardue, Derek; Kenny, Ailbhe & Young, Katie (Ed.), Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night. University of Chicago Press. ISSN 9781789386998. p. 159–179. Full text in Research Archive
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2022). Shakespear's Sister, "Stay"(1992). In Hill, Sarah (Eds.), One-Hit Wonders: An Oblique History of Popular Music. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781501368417.
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2021). “A reward rather than a right”: Facilitators’ perspectives on the place of music in Norwegian prison exceptionalism. Musicae Scientiae. ISSN 1029-8649. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Mangaoang, Áine Ryan (2023). Sounding Dissent: Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism. By Stephen R. Millar. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-13194-5. Popular Music. ISSN 0261-1430. 42(2), p. 211–214. doi: 10.1017/S0261143023000077.
  • Mangaoang, Áine Ryan & Cathcart Frödén, Lucy (2023). Songs from the Inside.
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2022). Music and Incarceration.
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2022). Prisons of Note: Music in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2022). Music connects inmates in Norwegian prisons to the outside world (News Article). [Internet]. Journalism.
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2022). Musikk knyt innsette i norske fengsel til verda utanfor (Av Silje Pileberg).
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2022). Björk, Homogenic (1997). In McGuirk, Niall & Murphy, Michael M. (Ed.), Punks Listen. Hope Publications. ISSN 9780995547520.
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2022). Prisons of Note: Mapping music in prisons from the periphery (Keynote address).
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2021). Episode 5: Made in Ireland with Áine Mangaoang and John O'Flynn. Lines On Music: Conversations on the Study and Performance of Music (podcast hosted by Jeremiah Spillane). [Internet]. Podcast.
  • Mangaoang, Áine Ryan (2021). Music in Norwegian Prisons.
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2021). Mapping music and nuances in penal exceptionalism from the periphery.
  • Mangaoang, Áine (2021). Singing Restorative Justice: Norwegian Prison Music Exceptionalism?

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