About
Social anthropologist with a PhD in musicology from the University of Oslo. Doing research on pop music, popular culture, creativity and talent development within the arts.
Field of study
Innovation Ethnography Popular Culture Popularmusic Creativity Talent development Youth Research Art and craft Music production Media innovation Creative industries
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Creative, artificial or colonized intelligence? a critical exploration of AI’s entry into commercial songwriting
The project explores how AI influences creative collaborative processes in songwriting.
Completed research projects
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Empowering youth and co-creating social innovations and policymaking through youth-focused citizen social science (YouCount)
YouCount will, through co-creative youth citizen social science (Y-CSS), with youth aged 15 to 29 years as citizen scientists, produce new knowledge of positive drivers for social inclusion of youth at risk of exclusion, as well as create innovation and new policies.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Rudningen, Gudrun;
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
;
Hansen, Per Bonde
(2025).
Situasjonell kreativitet: Hva kan papirdesken som forsvant, lære oss om kreativt arbeid?.
Mediehistorisk tidsskrift.
Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/https://medietidsskrift.no/wp-cont
Rudningen, Gudrun;
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Hansen, Per Bonde
;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
(2025).
Situasjonell kreativitet: Hva kan papirdesken som forsvant, lære oss om kreativt arbeid?.
Mediehistorisk tidsskrift.
Vol. 44.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5359611
Prior, Nick; Barna, Emília; Harkins, Paul; Reitsamer, Rosa;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
(2025).
Introduction to Special Issue: Home, Work, and Music - Toward a Domestic Turn in Popular Music Studies.
Popular music and society.
Vol. 48.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2026.2623719
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
; Engerbakk, Bjørk;
Lorenzen, Sara Berge
;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
(2024).
Rebels in their own job: How digging into a municipal mystery turned invited youth participation in an urban planning process into uninvited activism.
Children & society.
https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12820
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
(2024).
“The Numbers Don’t Lie!”: Metrics as Tools for Decision Making and Strategic Planning in Music Industry Organizations.
Arditi, David; Nolan, Ryan (Ed.).
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies. p. 209-221.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64013-1_13
Herbst, Jan-Peter; Williams, Katherine;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
; Barber, Simon
(2024).
The Benefits of Collaborative Popular Music Songwriting: A Spectrum of Artist-Songwriter Involvement.
Popular music and society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2024.2428035
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
(2023).
Singing wives and oligarch patrons: Sounding out the wealth of Russian elites through popular music.
Journal of Extreme Anthropology.
Vol. 6.
https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.9853
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
(2023).
“Bring Your A-game and Leave Your Ego at the Door!” Songwriting Camps as Sites for the (Re-)Production of Practice-based Knowledge.
IASPM Journal.
Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2023)v13i1.2en
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
;
Lorenzen, Sara Berge
(2022).
Pandemi som mulighetsrom for digital transformasjon.
Eliassen, Knut Ove; Ogundipe, Anne; Prytz, Øyvind (Ed.).
Estetiske praksiser i den digitale produksjonens tidsalder. p. 463-494.
Fagbokforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.55669/oa140513
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
;
Bygdås, Arne
(2021).
“Magic through many minor measures”: How introducing a flowline production mode in six steps enables journalist team autonomy in local news organizations.
AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication.
https://doi.org/10.1007/S00146-021-01176-2