PhD course “Analytical Theory and Methods of Popular Music Research”

University of Agder, Kristiansand/Norway

Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Popular Music

October – December 2024

The University of Agder invites applications for the PhD course “Analytical Theory and Methods of Popular Music Research”. The course provides an overview of scholarly discourses and methods in the interdisciplinary field of popular music research. It consists of lectures, seminars and presentations by the participating PhD students.

The hybrid meetings (face-to-face at the Kristiansand campus and via Zoom) will take place on the following days, each from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: 10 October, 13 November, 3 December, and 5 December 2024. Lecturers: Prof. Eirik Askerøi, Prof. Tor Dybo, Dr. Ingolv Haaland, Prof. Daniel Nordgård, and Prof. Michael Rauhut (course tutor).

The course is free of charge and equates 10 ECTS Credit Points. At the end of the course, each participant is required to submit a paper of approximately ten pages in which her/his own dissertation project is presented in relation to general discourses in the field of popular music research. The final schedule and reading list will be published in September 2024. The number of participants will be limited to a maximum of ten.

Please send your applications and inquiries to: michael.rauhut@uia.no