Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Högskolan för scen och musik
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Situated Agencies: Mediating Places through the Body
(2024-04-12)At a time when our ways of experiencing and inhabiting places in the city have become increasingly entangled with technology, the Situated Agencies: Mediating places through the Body explores how site-specific performance ... -
Techniques of Ecstasy: Rumori - Tracing Sound
(2023-11-03)This doctoral thesis proposes the philosophical concept of ontopoetics in relation to an artistic practice of sound (music) and listening. The concept of ontopoetics is used as the backdrop of the developed notion of ... -
I otakt med tiden: En genealogi av svensk musiklärarutbildning
(2023-10-20)The aim of this thesis is to contribute to knowledge about how Swedish music teacher education today is governed. The theoretical lens is a Foucauldian genealogical approach according to which the educational context is ... -
Den klingande verklighetens föränderlighet: Mot ett vidgat gestaltningsutrymme
(2022-05-06)For artists, the impact of the symbols in a score on interpretational positions may on some occasions be experienced as problematic. This is especially the case for artists, experiencing the classical musical tradition to ... -
An Operatic Game Changer: The Opera Maker as Game Designer and the Potentials of Ludo-Immersive Opera
(2022-01-28)How can live-performed chamber operas be conceptualized as immersive games with interactive features? This artistic study has resulted in a system model through which degrees of immersion may be generated and analyzed from ... -
Jazz in Worship and Worship in Jazz: Exploring the musical language of Liturgical, Sacred, and Spiritual Jazz in a Postsecular Age
(2021-05-21)The aim of this dissertation is to identify musical elements that contribute to the generation of religious meaning in jazz performance and to explore how religious experience can inspire jazz composition. In this study, ... -
Omsorg, välvilja och tystnadskultur – diskursiva dilemman och strategier i lärarutbildningens undervisningspraktik i musik mot yngre åldrar
(2021-03-17)The aim of this thesis is to critically scrutinize, identify and problematize discourses in music education within teacher education towards younger ages. The study explores how teaching practice and examinations in music ... -
Circumscribing Tonality: Upper Secondary Music Students Learning the Circle of Fifths
(2020-09-29)The fundamental motivation for this research project is that listening is central to all musical activities, and that semiotic means for visualizing, representing, and conceptualizing music are central to educational ... -
"Rörlig och stabil, bred och spetsig”. Kulturell reproduktion och strategier för breddat deltagande i den svenska kulturskolan
(2020-03-03)One point of departure of this study is the intensified national interest at the policy level in Swedish kulturskolor (Community Schools of Music and Arts) as an inclusive and accessible institution. Yet, the field can be ... -
Att göra plats för traditioner. Antagonism och kunskapsproduktion inom folk- och världsmusik
(2020-03-03)The aim of this thesis is to critically examine the educational area of folk and world music within higher education in Sweden, with a focus on questions of knowledge, power, and governance. The study is ethnographic and ... -
Orchestrating timbre – Unfolding processes of timbre and memory in improvisational piano performance
(2019-12-05)This doctoral thesis presents how the orchestration of timbre is investigated from a performer’s perspective as means to “unfold” improvisational processes. It is grounded in my practice as a pianist in the realm of ... -
An Inexplicable Hunger – flutist)body(flute (dis)encounters
(2019-03-18)This doctoral research is structured by singular encounters, that happened between 2014 and 2018. Together with a series of collaborators, I have developed a critical and poetic methodology through what I call “mixture”, ... -
Before Sound: Transversal Processes in Site-Specific Sonic Practice
(2018-10-24)This doctoral research explores the capacity of site-specific practices of sound installation to bring about transformation. It claims that in order to understand this capacity, we need to address the complexity of the ... -
Positioner i dans – om genus, handlingsutrymme och dansrörelser i grundskolans praktik
(2016-10-11)Abstract Title: Positioner i dans – om genus, handlingsutrymme och dansrörelser i grundskolans praktik English title: Positions in dance- on gender, agency and dance movements in primary school practice Language: Swedish ... -
The Rhythm of Thinking: Immanence and Ethics in Theater Performance
(2016-08-19)The dissertation The Rhythm of Thinking: Immanence and Ethics in Theater Performance is an artistic research project in the field of theater, with directing and theatrical composition and dramaturgy as its main points of ... -
En avestetiserad skol- och lärandekultur. En studie om lärprocessers estetiska dimensioner
(2015-03-02)In this dissertation teaching and learning is studied based on the concepts of arts-based learning processes and the methods of art. I discuss the ontology of arts-based learning processes in relation to arts methods and ... -
Never Heard Before: A Musical Exploration of Organ Voicing
(2015-02-09)This dissertation examines the practice of voicing and its implications for musical performance. Organ sounds are shaped to suit the practice of musical performance, and they influence that practice in significant ways. ... -
Signing and Singing - Children in Teaching Dialogues
(2014-09-08)The dissertation examines children’s dialogical sense-making in task-oriented teaching activities, the aim of which is to explore children’s values and ideas in musical learning, in order to investigate how musical knowledge ... -
När musik gör skillnad – genus och genrepraktiker i samspel
(2014-04-28)The specific aim of the thesis is to highlight and problematise how gender in interplay with practice of genre is expressed and constructed in musical action. I discuss the interplay between gender and genre practice in ... -
Den kapitalistiska skådespelaren – aktör eller leverantör?
(2014-03-03)The dissertation revolves around an actor’s craft as a changing craft. Theatre workers - like many other professions in Sweden – have experienced major changes in the labour market during a relatively short period of time. ...