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Ingrid M. Tolstad

Ingrid M. Tolstad

Job title
  • Senior Researcher
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 35, 0166 Oslo
  • Office number: PE729
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 952 46 729
  • Office: +47 672 36 934
E-mail
  • ingrid.tolstad@oslomet.no
Affiliation

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

Completed research projects

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

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

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. (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

Rosten, Monika ; Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2021). Samlokaliserte, samorganiserte og samskapte ungdomstilbud - en utopi?. Hagen, Aina Landsverk (Ed.). Ung medvirkning: Kreativitet og konflikt i planlegging. p. 197-221. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.150

Tolstad, Ingrid M. ; Dalseide, Astri Margareta (2021). Architectural anthropologists in the making? Paths to creative youth participation in local urban development. Stender, Marie; Bech-Danielson, Claus; Hagen, Aina Landsverk (Ed.). Architectural Anthropology: Exploring Lived Space. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4896623

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2021). ‘We have no music industry!’ Exploring the context of post-Soviet music making through the lens of contemporary Swedo-Russian collaborations. Galuszka, Patryk (Ed.). Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism: From State Control to Free Market. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4159491



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Research reports

Hagen, Aina Landsverk ; Lorenzen, Sara Berge ; Alves, Daniele Evelin ; Andersen, Bengt ; Dalseide, Astri Margareta; Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2023). Unges deltagelse og engasjement i lokal stedsutvikling på Mortensrud: Utvikling av systematikk for kunnskapsbasert og målrettet medvirkning for og i Osloskolen gjennom UDE-modellen, med case fra Mortensrudprosjektet (felt 10, 11 og 12). 66 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3318147

Tolstad, Ingrid M. ; Hagen, Aina Landsverk ; Lorenzen, Sara Berge (2020). Rom for talentutvikling. Rapportering fra følgeforskning av talentutviklingsprogrammet FilmLab i Norge 2016–2019. 39 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/6433

Lorenzen, Sara Berge ; Tolstad, Ingrid M. ; Dalseide, Astri Margareta (2019). Ung på Hauketo: Oppsummering av ungdomstråkk på Hauketo. 10 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3260044

Rosten, Monika ; Hagen, Aina Landsverk ; Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2019). Samskaping og usynlige barrierer i et åpent hus. Evaluering av partnerskapet i Furuset bibliotek og aktivitetshus (FUBIAK). ISBN: 9788278946954. 45 p. NOVA, Oslomet.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/1319

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2017). Snowflake Music: A Music Production Company in the Making. 336 p. Nauka.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3500441

Brattbakk, Ingar ; Ruud, Marit Ekne ; Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2016). Et sted å være, noe å gjøre. Unges fremtidsvisjoner for Selbak torv. 44 p. Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5046226



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Dissemination

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2024). «The key word is collaboration» Organizations lobbying for musicians rights in the emerging age of AI. Algoritmisk styring og den norske modellen. Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet, OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3462008

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2023). Taylor Swift-effekten (Forklart’s Version).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3425238

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2023). Nyhetssak om Taylor Swift og NFL.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4998413

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2023). Taylor Swift-rykter skaper NFL-feber blant unge kvinner. Er hun vår tids Elvis?.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4062978

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2023). Nå er denne 90-tallstrenden tilbake for fullt!.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4098486

Tolstad, Ingrid M. ; Nylund, Hagen Anja (2023). -Spellemann svikter ved å ikke utfordre plattformene.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4989159

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2023). Spellemannkritikk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3905536

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2023). «Men jeg er ikke topliner!» Om kampen for å vikle seg inn i produsentstolens teknologisk privilgerte assemblage. Omveltninger: Norsk Antropologisk Årskonferanse 2023. NTNU.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4838764

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2023). «But I’m not a topliner!” Gendered distributions of knowledge and power in the songwriting camp context. Dialogues on Songwriting: Creativity, Methods & Contexts. Universitetet i Agder.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4279712

Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2023). Claiming a seat in ‘the producer’s chair’: Gendered distributions of knowledge and power in the techno-sensory assemblage of collaborative popular music songwriting. Everyday Lives in Digitalized Worlds. University of Oslo.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3705733



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