About
My work and publications are related to various subdisciplines of current musicology: music therapy, ethnomusicology, music education and the sociology of music. Underlying my profesional work is an interest in understanding the many ways in which a musical practice is made meaningfull and powerful - as an emblem of national identity, as a tool for building group solidarity, or as spontaneous improvised communication between children.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Other subjects within music Music education
Subject areas
Ethnomusicology Music Therrapy Popular Music Studies
Countries
Chile Gambia India Norway Palestine Zimbabwe
Research groups
Research projects
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How do Norwegian Festivals Contribute to Artistic Development, Social Communities and New Forms of Political Participation? (FESTIPOL)
The overall aim is to investigate how support from the Arts Council Norway help Norwegian festivals to reach broader political aims related to artistic development, political participation and social community formation in practice?
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Knudsen, Jan Sverre
(2023).
Sjanger som stedskonstruktør: musikk og stedsidentitet ved Notodden Blues Festival.
Takle, Marianne; Henningsen, Erik; Bøhler, Kjetil Klette; Bergsli, Heidi; Knudsen, Jan Sverre; Dokken, Therese (Ed.).
Festivalpolitikk i endring - evaluering av Kulturrådets tilskuddsordninger for festivaler.
Kulturrådet.
https://kulturdirektoratet.no/vis-publikasjon/-/fe...
Takle, Marianne; Henningsen, Erik; Bøhler, Kjetil Klette; Bergsli, Heidi; Knudsen, Jan Sverre; Dokken, Therese; Røberg, Karl Ingar Kittelsen (2023). Festivaler: kulturpolitikk og Kulturrådet. Takle, Marianne; Henningsen, Erik; Bøhler, Kjetil Klette; Bergsli, Heidi; Knudsen, Jan Sverre; Dokken, Therese (Ed.). Festivalpolitikk i endring - evaluering av Kulturrådets tilskuddsordninger for festivaler. p. 11-47. Kulturrådet.
Knudsen, Jan Sverre; Onsrud, Silje Valde
(2023).
Ideology, selective tradition, and naturalization in the music teacher education curriculum.
22 p.
Nordic Research in Music Education.
Vol. 4.
https://doi.org/10.23865/nrme.v4.4161
Takle, Marianne; Henningsen, Erik; Bøhler, Kjetil Klette; Bergsli, Heidi; Knudsen, Jan Sverre; Dokken, Therese; Røberg, Karl Ingar Kittelsen (2023). Kulturpolitikk og festivaler. Takle, Marianne; Henningsen, Erik; Bøhler, Kjetil Klette; Bergsli, Heidi; Knudsen, Jan Sverre; Dokken, Therese (Ed.). Festivalpolitikk i endring - evaluering av Kulturrådets tilskuddsordninger for festivaler. p. 341- Kulturrådet.
Knudsen, Jan Sverre
(2021).
Arts for Children, Cultural Diversity and the Production of Difference.
16 p.
Nordic Journal of Art and Research (A & R).
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.7577/information.3998
Knudsen, Jan Sverre
(2021).
To “Move, Surprise, and Thrill”: Thirty Years of Promoting Cultural Diversity in Norwegian School Concerts.
Kallio, Alexis Anja; Westerlund, Heidi; Karlsen, Sidsel; Marsh, Kathryn; Sæther, Eva (Ed.).
The politics of diversity in music education. p. 87-101.
Springer.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-...
Knudsen, Jan Sverre (2018). Songkanon i skola och förskola. Trulsson, Ylva Hofvander; Westvall, Maria (Ed.). p. 121-136. Studentlitteratur AB.
Knudsen, Jan Sverre; Aglen, Gry Sagmo; Danbolt, Ingrid Anette; Engesnes, Nina
(2018).
Musical pathfinders of the kindergarten.
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949118756369
Knudsen, Jan Sverre
(2017).
Music in the Aftermath of the 2011 Utøya Massacre.
Holt, Fabian; Kärje, Antti-Ville (Ed.).
The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries. p. 257-276.
Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190603908.013...
Kirkegaard, Annemette; Järviluoma-Mäkelä, Helmi; Knudsen, Jan Sverre; Otterbeck, Jonas
(2017).
Researching Music Censorship.
ISBN: 978-1-4438-8617-8.
345 p.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
https://books.google.no/books?id=6VwpDwAAQBAJ&pg=P...