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Broch Ålvik, Jon Mikkel, PhDORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0001-5489-217x
Biography [eng]

Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik is senior lecturer in musicology in the School of Music, Theatre and Art at Örebro University. Ålvik holds MA and PhD degrees in musicology from the University of Oslo. He specialises in critical musicology and popular music studies, and his teaching and research are characterised by an interdisciplinary approach that links musicology with gender, media, and identity studies. Ålvik’s chief musicological interests are the broad field of popular music, identity politics,gender and sexuality, gender performativity, authenticity, theatricality, the music industry, critical historiography, and mediation, as well as the relationship/s between music and technology, with the voice as a central topic of interest. He is affiliated with the research environment, Music and Human Beings, and is a member of the research team, Aesthetics, Culture and Media (ACCLAIM) at Örebro University. He also researches into questions of Nordic music and identity, and he is an associated member of the Nordic Sounds critical research group based at the University of Oslo.

Biography [swe]

Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik är sedan vårterminen 2017 universitetslektor i musikvetenskap vid Musikhögskolan, Örebro universitet. Ålvik är MA (2008) och PhD (2014) i musikvetenskap från Universitetet i Oslo, med fördjupning i populärmusikforskning. Hans arbete har en kulturvetenskaplig och interdisciplinär tillgång, med talrika kopplingar mellan musikvetenskap och genus- och medieforskning. Ålvik har formalkompetens på populärmusikforskning och musikvetenskap i stort, vetenskapsteori och akademisk skrivande. Hans främsta vetenskapliga intressen är populärmusik, musik och identitet, genus och sexualitet, könsperformativitet, begreppet autenticitet, musikbranschen och kulturindustrin, hur musiken kan analyseras i en kontext av teatralisering och iscensättning, kritisk historiografi, hur mediering påverkar vårt lyssnande, och förhållandet mellan musik och teknologi, i synnerhet hur teknologin påverkar vårt förhållande till röster. Han är ledamot i forskningsmiljön Musiken och Människan och forskargruppen Aesthetics, Culture and Media (ACCLAIM) vid Örebro universitet. Han arbetar också med frågor om nordisk musik och identitet, och han är ledamot i forskarnätverket Nordic Sounds vid Universitetet i Oslo.

Publications (10 of 14) Show all publications
Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2023). "I Hate Vanilla": BDSM, populærmusikk og det dobbelte blikket. In: : . Paper presented at 11th Annual Kinkferanse, Kristiansand, Norway, October 6-8, 2023..
Open this publication in new window or tab >>"I Hate Vanilla": BDSM, populærmusikk og det dobbelte blikket
2023 (Norwegian)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [no]

I dette foredraget kobler jeg egen forskning på representasjoner av BDSM i populærmusikk (2008) med eget nyere arbeid om nordiske artisters strategier for å skape sine artistpersonaer (2021). Representasjoner av BDSM i populærmusikk gir oss innganger til å undersøke hvordan ideer om seksualitet dels normaliseres gjennom at de blir gjort tilgjengelige for et bredt publikum, og dels patologiseres gjennom å bli definert utenfor samfunnets grenser for normalitet. Jeg bruker Margot Weiss' analysemodell for hvordan dette dobbelte blikket (the double gaze) skiller mellom akseptable og uakseptable framstillinger av BDSM i min lesning av to musikkeksempler, som begge kan ses som at de utvider rommet for representasjoner av BDSM i populærkulturen generelt og populærmusikk spesielt.

Keywords
BDSM, popular music, persona, media studies, gender studies, musicology, BDSM, populærmusikk, medievitenskap, kjønnsforskning, musikkvitenskap, persona
National Category
Musicology
Research subject
Musicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-108831 (URN)
Conference
11th Annual Kinkferanse, Kristiansand, Norway, October 6-8, 2023.
Available from: 2023-10-10 Created: 2023-10-10 Last updated: 2023-10-18Bibliographically approved
Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2022). Framing Tix: Musical persona and meaning-making within and across genres. In: : . Paper presented at New Perspectives in Popular Music Research: Changes and Turmoil Conference 2022: The University of Agder, Kristiansand/Norway, June 1–2, 2022.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Framing Tix: Musical persona and meaning-making within and across genres
2022 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Keywords
tix, persona, norwegian popular music, nordic popular music, russelåter, russemusikk, tix, persona, norsk populærmusikk, nordisk populærmusikk, russelåter, russemusikk
National Category
Musicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-100387 (URN)
Conference
New Perspectives in Popular Music Research: Changes and Turmoil Conference 2022: The University of Agder, Kristiansand/Norway, June 1–2, 2022
Available from: 2022-08-01 Created: 2022-08-01 Last updated: 2024-05-22Bibliographically approved
Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2022). Russelåter og raggarmusik: Et analytisk blikk på Tix’ norsk-svenske samarbeid. In: Musikforskning idag 2022 13–15 juni 2022: Program och abstrakt. Paper presented at Musikforskning idag-2022, Falun, 13-15 juni, 2022.. Svenska samfundet för musikforskning
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Russelåter og raggarmusik: Et analytisk blikk på Tix’ norsk-svenske samarbeid
2022 (Norwegian)In: Musikforskning idag 2022 13–15 juni 2022: Program och abstrakt, Svenska samfundet för musikforskning , 2022Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [no]

I dette foredraget undersøker jeg tre dimensjoner i prosjektet til den norske artisten Andreas Haukeland alias Tix, som forsøksvis koples sammen. Mitt utgangspunkt er den svenske duoen Samir & Viktors svenskspråklige coverversjon av Tix’ låt ”Karantene” (2020), hvor Tix også medvirker. Jeg ønsker å undersøke hvordan originallåten gjenskapes på svensk. Her kommer jeg først og fremst til å være oppmerksom på språk og tematikk i teksten, og hvilken signifikans Tix’ deltakelse i låten har for artistenes arbeid innenfor respektive sjangrer. 

Samspillet mellom Haukelands Tix-persona og duoen Samir & Viktor er også relevant for analysen. Tix’ personlige narrativ om funksjonshinder, depresjon og utenforskap kan ses som integrert i hans artistpersona, og tilfører et skinn av autentisitet. Samtidig opptrer han på Paradise Hotel og Eurovision Song Contest, som kan ses som kommersielle arenaer som utfordrer ideen om artistens autentisitet. Her finnes paralleller til Samir & Viktor, som har medvirket ved Melodifestivalen og i Paradise Hotel, og Frisks narrativ om funksjonshinder. Jeg undersøker hvordan artistenes personaer forbindes med resepsjonen av musikken og hvordan det antatt personlige narrativet nyanserer musikksjangerens betydning for resepsjonen av musikken. 

Den svenske koblingen gir meg også en inngang til å undersøke Tix’ prosjekt i forhold til subsjangere i svensk populærmusikk som raggarmusik og könsrock, og hvordan disse sjangrene kan ses som inspirasjonskilder for den norske subsjangeren russelåter, hvor Tix er en viktig artist. 

Jeg kommer til å anvende Philip Auslanders tredelte analysemodell (frame, genre, persona) som teoriunderlag i for de tre dimensjonene i Tix’ prosjekt. I tillegg henter jeg støtte i Peter Dahlens (2017) og Lars Lilliestams (2013) arbeid med könsrock og raggarmusikk, og Mikhail Bakhtins (2003) teori om karnevalet som et uttrykk for motkultur i diskusjonen av russelåter og könsrock og deres potensielt omstyrtende funksjoner i samfunnet. Jeg trekker også på folkemusikeren Sara Parkmans arbeid med ”snuskvisor” og deres plass i moderne svensk populærmusikk for perspektiv på sjangrene könsrock og russelåter. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Svenska samfundet för musikforskning, 2022
Keywords
tix, persona, Norwegian popular music, Swedish popular music, russemusikk, russelåter, raggarmusik, könsrock, snuskvisor, authenticity, carnival, bakhtin, tix, persona, norsk populärmusik, svensk populärmusik, russemusikk, russelåter, raggarmusik, könsrock, snuskvisor, autenticitet, karneval, bakhtin, sara parkman, flashback forever, tix, persona, norsk populærmusikk, svensk populærmusikk, russemusikk, russelåter, autentisitet, karneval, bakhtin
National Category
Musicology
Research subject
Musicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-100388 (URN)
Conference
Musikforskning idag-2022, Falun, 13-15 juni, 2022.
Available from: 2022-08-01 Created: 2022-08-01 Last updated: 2022-08-03Bibliographically approved
Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2021). The Pleasure(s) of the Pop Text: Subversion and Theatricality in Cloroform and Tove Lo (1ed.). In: Kai Arne Hansen, Eirik Askerøi, Freya Jarman (Ed.), Popular Musicology and Identity: Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins (pp. 82-96). London & New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Pleasure(s) of the Pop Text: Subversion and Theatricality in Cloroform and Tove Lo
2021 (English)In: Popular Musicology and Identity: Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins / [ed] Kai Arne Hansen, Eirik Askerøi, Freya Jarman, London & New York: Routledge, 2021, 1, p. 82-96Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London & New York: Routledge, 2021 Edition: 1
Keywords
theatricality, persona, nordic popular music, norwegian popular music, swedish popular music, teatralitet, persona, nordisk populærmusikk, norsk populærmusikk, svensk populærmusikk
National Category
Musicology
Research subject
Musicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-86487 (URN)978-1-138-32288-2 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-10-14 Created: 2020-10-14 Last updated: 2020-11-10Bibliographically approved
Broch Ålvik, J. M. & Hawkins, S. (2019). A-ha's "Take on Me": Melody, Vocal Compulsion, and Rotoscoping (1ed.). In: Ciro Scotto, Kenneth Smith, John Brackett (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (pp. 77-94). New York and London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A-ha's "Take on Me": Melody, Vocal Compulsion, and Rotoscoping
2019 (English)In: The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches / [ed] Ciro Scotto, Kenneth Smith, John Brackett, New York and London: Routledge, 2019, 1, p. 77-94Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York and London: Routledge, 2019 Edition: 1
Series
Routledge Music Companions
National Category
Musicology
Research subject
Musicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-70517 (URN)978-1-138-68311-2 (ISBN)978-1-315-54470-0 (ISBN)
Note

1985 was a very special year in pop history, as much from a Norwegian as a British perspective. The Second British Invasion had commenced. Despite Madonna and Bruce Springsteen rising to stardom and Whitney Houston clinching her first number one single, with “Saving All My Love for You”—oh yes, and Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie pulling together the biggest names in pop music to record “We Are the World” for starving families in Ethiopia—Madonna was the only North American in the US Top Ten; non-Americans scored eight consecutive chart toppers, seven of which were British, the eighth Norwegian. A-ha marked this crucial point in Norwegian popular music history with the release of their song, “Take on Me.” This came out in the same year as the duo, Bobbysocks, won Norway’s first victory in the Eurovision Song Contest. A-ha symbolized an international turn for Norway in 1985. After the local success of a range of Norwegian-language artists at the start of the decade (e.g., Jannicke, The Kids, Beranek, Lars Kilevold), Norway’s popular music scene was predicated upon collaborations with the UK music business. A-ha’s move to London in search of success which they eventually achieved is emblematic of a set of unspoken rules that served to discipline Norwegian artists. 1 Today “Take on Me” is still loved by fans and audiences all over the world, which is borne out by a wealth of readily available covers, remixes and re-arrangements.

Available from: 2018-12-05 Created: 2018-12-05 Last updated: 2021-01-21Bibliographically approved
Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2019). Between noises: Public spaces, the presence of noise and musical self-care. In: Calvo-Manzano A.,Delgado A.,Perez-Lopez A.,Santiago J.S. (Ed.), INTER-NOISE 2019 MADRID: 48th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering2019. Paper presented at The 49th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering (INTER-NOISE 2019), Madrid, Spain, June 16-19, 2019. SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA DE ACUSTICA - Spanish Acoustical Society, SEA
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Between noises: Public spaces, the presence of noise and musical self-care
2019 (English)In: INTER-NOISE 2019 MADRID: 48th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering2019 / [ed] Calvo-Manzano A.,Delgado A.,Perez-Lopez A.,Santiago J.S., SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA DE ACUSTICA - Spanish Acoustical Society, SEA , 2019Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

"Noise” is everywhere. This may be a truism; however, what makes the idea of inter-noise compelling is precisely that personalised music listening in urban spaces entails that silence is replaced with noise, i.e., if music bleeds through our headphones or we play music on our smartphones without regard to the well-being of others in our vicinity. Drawing on Jacques Attali’s assertion that “nothing essential happens in the absence of noise”, I intend to explore public spaces as arenas that are truly inter-noise in that sound always replaces sound and that we are between noises rather than between noise and silence. Building on this, I go on to discuss Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s suggestion that modern (information) age creates new forms of vulnerability. To this end, I offer a reading of this statement in the light of Marie Skånland’s theory of the useof MP3 players as “musical self-care” and as a means for empowerment and agency.This opens for understanding music in public spaces as “aesthetic control”, creating relationships between the individual and the environment, but also as a bridge between noises, where noise always takes on the function of defence against other noise.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA DE ACUSTICA - Spanish Acoustical Society, SEA, 2019
Keywords
music, noise, soundscapes, smartphones, technology
National Category
Musicology
Research subject
Musicology esp. Musical Education; Musicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-75483 (URN)2-s2.0-85084161028 (Scopus ID)
Conference
The 49th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering (INTER-NOISE 2019), Madrid, Spain, June 16-19, 2019
Available from: 2019-07-31 Created: 2019-07-31 Last updated: 2023-04-24Bibliographically approved
Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2019). “I do not have an image, I am just who I am”: Marit Larsen, persona and authenticity in popular music. In: : . Paper presented at Inaugural International Persona Studies Conference, Newcastle, UK, June 25-26, 2019.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>“I do not have an image, I am just who I am”: Marit Larsen, persona and authenticity in popular music
2019 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In popular music, the notion of authenticity seemingly bridges the gap between pop artists’ music and their pop lives. We may see artists’ claim to authenticity in terms, such as realness and honesty, as a crucial factor in the construction of their personae.

Exemplified by claims such as, ”I do not have an image, I am just who I am”, the Norwegian pop artist Marit Larsen employs stereotypes of age and gender to create a persona that exemplifies authenticity as an unmarked term, functioning as a binary opposite to purportedly dishonest ideas of strategically staging a persona.

Analysing Larsen’s self-reflexive discourse in interviews and TV appearances, I investigate into how assertions of honesty and realness are substantiated through her persona. Central to my argument is the theory that the persona is never identical to the person, as the persona must also accommodate the listener and their desires. Even though theories of the artist’s persona go against any notion of authenticity, the deconstruction of the persona as separate from the real person reminds us that we cannot know what the actual person adds or subtracts in order to create the persona, and enables critical analysis of the artist’s purported authenticity.

Keywords
persona, gender performativity, popular music, Nordic popular music, Marit Larsen
National Category
Musicology
Research subject
Musicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-75484 (URN)
Conference
Inaugural International Persona Studies Conference, Newcastle, UK, June 25-26, 2019
Available from: 2019-07-31 Created: 2019-07-31 Last updated: 2019-08-01Bibliographically approved
Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2019). Made in Sweden: Studies in popular music [Review]. Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Made in Sweden: Studies in popular music
2019 (Norwegian)In: Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, ISSN 0081-9816, E-ISSN 2002-021XArticle, book review (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Svenska samfundet för musikvetenskap, 2019
Keywords
Swedish popular music, swedish music history, nordic popular music, musicology, Svensk musikhistoria, svensk populärmusik, skandinavisk populärmusik, nordisk populärmusik
National Category
Musicology
Research subject
Musicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-75481 (URN)
Note

Recension av Alf Björnberg och Thomas Bossius (red.): Made in Sweden: Studies in popular music. New York og London: Routledge 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-93652-2.

Available from: 2019-07-31 Created: 2019-07-31 Last updated: 2023-08-28Bibliographically approved
Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2019). Touching from A Distance: Imagining Marit Larsen in Queer Spaces. Radical Musicology, 7
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Touching from A Distance: Imagining Marit Larsen in Queer Spaces
2019 (English)In: Radical Musicology, E-ISSN 1751-7788, Vol. 7Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article investigates into how Norwegian pop artist Marit Larsen's music and persona may be open to queer readings. Via close readings of songs and media appearances, I wish to show the possibility of meanings in the work of an artist whose music, on a superficial level, comes across as contingent on the artist’s own, heteronormative version of events.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Newcastle: ICMuS, 2019
Keywords
Popular music, queer theory, nordic popular music, gender performativity, music and identity
National Category
Musicology
Research subject
Musicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-75482 (URN)
Available from: 2019-07-31 Created: 2019-07-31 Last updated: 2024-03-14Bibliographically approved
Broch Ålvik, J. M. (2017). Armed with the Faith of a Child: Marit Larsen and Strategies of Faking. In: Stan Hawkins (Ed.), The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender: (pp. 253-266). London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Armed with the Faith of a Child: Marit Larsen and Strategies of Faking
2017 (English)In: The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender / [ed] Stan Hawkins, London: Routledge, 2017, p. 253-266Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2017
Keywords
popular music, persona, gender performativity, nordic popular music, norwegian popular music, marit larsen, marit larsen, populærmusikk, kjønn, identitet
National Category
Musicology
Research subject
Musicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-75486 (URN)9781472456830 (ISBN)9781315613437 (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-07-31 Created: 2019-07-31 Last updated: 2019-08-01Bibliographically approved
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