Yngvar Kjus is Professor of Music and Contemporary Media and Head of Research at the Department of Musicology.
Kjus leads the research project The platformization of music production: Developer and user perspectives on transformations in music production technology (PLATFORM), which is funded by the FRIPRO program of the Research Council of Norway, from 2021 to 2025. He led the research project Music on demand: Economy and copyright in a digitized cultural sector (MUSEC), which was funded through the KULMEDIA program of the Research Council of Norway from 2018 to 2021.
Kjus is author of Live and Recorded: Music Experience in the Digital Millennium.
Academic interests
- popular music
- music production
- music media
- music industry
- mediated experience
- technology
- cultural politics
- copyright
Background
I have for a long time been interested in the relationship between music and media, in terms of the creation as well as the mediation and communication of music. My postdoc period was in the research project Clouds & Concerts which investigated key developments in live and recorded music in contemporary music culture. The PhD dealt with cross-media production. Other work experience: Senior Adviser at Arts Council Norway, Adviser at the Norwegian Media Authority, Media Analyst in NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation).
Teaching and tutoring
- MUS2531/4531 Musikk og medier
- MUS2325 Musikklivet og musikkbransjen
- MUS2500/4500 Music and copyright
- MEVIT1110 Audiovisual aesthetics
- MA, BA and PhD supervision
- PhD-courses (on academic formats and genre aesthetics)
Awards
Article of the Year Award in European Journal of Communication.