Jan Sverre Knudsen
I am professor of music at the Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University. My work and publications are related to various sub-disciplines of current musicology: music therapy, ethnomusicology, music education and the sociology of music. Underlying my professional work is an interest in understanding the many ways in which a musical practice is made meaningful and powerful - as an emblem of national identity, as a tool for building group solidarity, or as spontaneous improvised communication between children.
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Keywords: music education, concert promotion, Indian music and dance, psychology of music,
multicultural education."
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The study concerns a community with a considerable musical activity of various Latin American genres, taking place in public as well as private arenas. By engaging with both historical and present discourses in the community, complex processes of adaptation, redefinition and reconstruction are addressed. Based on field research and interviews as well as song lyrics and poetry, the study examines various ways in which a group of people with an active and committed relationship to music make their practices meaningful in this particular social setting.
Music activity in everyday life is understood as an essential part of the maintenance of the immigrant community as a distinct social entity. The study argues that immigrant culture is intimately connected to social needs of the present and should not be regarded primarily as a way of maintaining links to “roots” and “tradition”. It also challenges prevailing notions of immigrant music as a tool for creating multicultural understanding and bridging ethnic barriers. This is done by demonstrating how music styles and practices can attain a strong symbolic significance which contributes to the construction of notions of difference and otherness.
Papers in Norwegian
Musikk etter 22. juli er skrevet av forskere fra en rekke ulike fagfelt: populærmusikkstudier, litteraturvitenskap, religionsvitenskap, musikk og helse (musikkterapi) og medievitenskap.
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Keywords: music education, concert promotion, Indian music and dance, psychology of music,
multicultural education."
The study concerns a community with a considerable musical activity of various Latin American genres, taking place in public as well as private arenas. By engaging with both historical and present discourses in the community, complex processes of adaptation, redefinition and reconstruction are addressed. Based on field research and interviews as well as song lyrics and poetry, the study examines various ways in which a group of people with an active and committed relationship to music make their practices meaningful in this particular social setting.
Music activity in everyday life is understood as an essential part of the maintenance of the immigrant community as a distinct social entity. The study argues that immigrant culture is intimately connected to social needs of the present and should not be regarded primarily as a way of maintaining links to “roots” and “tradition”. It also challenges prevailing notions of immigrant music as a tool for creating multicultural understanding and bridging ethnic barriers. This is done by demonstrating how music styles and practices can attain a strong symbolic significance which contributes to the construction of notions of difference and otherness.
Musikk etter 22. juli er skrevet av forskere fra en rekke ulike fagfelt: populærmusikkstudier, litteraturvitenskap, religionsvitenskap, musikk og helse (musikkterapi) og medievitenskap.