Torgeir Uberg Nærland

Title: Researcher

Phone: +47 55 58 40 41

E-mail: Torgeir.Narland@infomedia.uib.no

Visiting address: Fosswinckelsgt. 6

Room number: 531

Popular music; Music and democracy; documentary film and copyright; Public Sphere Theory

Publications in Cristin

Articles

Nærland, T.U. (2014) “From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Karpe Diem in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre", Popular Communication – Forthcoming

Nærland, T.U. (2014) ”Flow som politisk retorikk – lyrisk og rytmisk samspill i Lars Vaulars 'Kem Skjøt Siv Jensen'”, in Bjarne Marcussen (ed) (2014) Den multimodale hendelse, Kristiansand: Portal Forlag - Forthcoming

Forsgren, F. og Nærland, T.U.(2014) ”Myte i blomst: Det multimodale samspillet mellom musikk og bilder i Bruce Conners The White Rose (1965)", in Bjarne Marcussen (ed)(2014) Den multimodale hendelse, Kristiansand: Portal Forlag – Forthcoming

Nærland, T.U. (2014) “Hip hop and the public sphere: political commitment and communicative practices on the Norwegian hip hop-scene”, The Javnost / The public, Vol.21, No. 1.

Nærland, T.U. (2014) “Rhythm, Rhyme and Reason: Hip Hop Expressivity as Political Discourse”, Popular Music, 33:3

Nærland, T. U. (2012) "Musikk og offentlighet", i Knapskog, K., Hovden, J.F (eds) (2012) Hunting High and Low. Skriftfest til Jostein Gripsrud. Scandinavian Academic Press

Nærland, T. U. (2012) "Musikkens politiske dimensjon. Et Intervju med Simon Frith"  Norsk Medietidsskrift 2012 (1)

Larsen, L. O; Nærland, T. U (2010) "Documentary in a culture of clearance : a study of knowledge of and attitudes toward copyright and fair use among Norwegian documentary makers",  Popular Communication 2010 ; Volum 8.(1) s. 46-60

Nærland, T.U. (2009)"Psykologisk perfeksjon gjennom eteren. Et intervju med Thomas Johansson" Norsk Medietidsskrift , 2009 (3)

Nærland, T. U. (2007) “Dansebandfeber!“, Replikk: tidsskrift for human- og samfunnsvitenskap,   # 23


Master thesis (2007):  “Dansebandfeber! – En analyse av mediale uttrykk for norsk dansebandkultur“


Selected conference-papers

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg  (2014) Flow som politisk retorikk, International Association of Scandinavian Studies Conference (IASS) Inter artes, Kristiansand (2014)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2014) From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Norwegian hip hop in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre, ICA International Communication Association Conference, Seattle (2014)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2014) Music and right wing populism, ICA International Communication Association Conference, Seattle (2014)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2014) From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Norwegian hip hop in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre, Music, Circulation and the Public Sphere, British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the Royal Musical Association, University of Manchester (2014)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2013) Rapping against the populist right, (Mis)understanding political participation, ECREA European Communication Conference: Section for Media and Democracy, Munich (2013)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2013) Hip hop and the public sphere: political commitment and communicative practices on the Norwegian hip hop-scene. IAMCR International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Dublin (2013)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2013) Musical interventions in the public sphere: hip hop music as political communication. IAMCR International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Dublin (2013)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2013) Rhythm, Rhyme and Reason: Hip Hop Expressivity as Political Discourse. Nordmedia Nor
dic Conference for Media and Communication Research, HiOA, Oslo (2013)

 

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Music, Politics and ideology, European Popular Culture Association Annual Conference (EUROPOP), London

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Den norske hip hop-scenen som arena for (politisk) meningsdannelse. Musikken i offentligheten / musikkens offentlighet, University of Bergen, Bergen (2012)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Music and deliberation. European Communication Conference, ECREA, Istanbul 24-27 October 2012.

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Music and deliberation – the Norwegian hip hop-scene as an arena for the formation of (political) public opinion. Popular culture and social transformation, University of Oslo (2012)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Music and the public sphere. "Culture and Power – social and political uses of aesthetics", Paris (2012)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Music, Politics and ideology. EUPOP -  European Popular Culture Association Conference, London (2012)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Popular music and the political dimension of taste. Norsk Medieforskerlags konferanse; Kristiansand (2012)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2011) Facilitating political engagement and orientation: musical taste and interest among young politicians in Norway. NordMedia 2011, Akureyri, Iceland, 11-13 August 2011

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2011) Musical taste and interest in political youth wings in Norway. Music, politics and identity, University of Bergen (2011)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2010) Anbefalte retningslinjer for anvendelse av sitatretten i norsk dokumentarfilmproduksjon. Norsk Medieforskningskonferanse; Ålesund (2010)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2010) Popular music in the cultural public sphere - Norwegian dance band-practice as a resource for democratic processes. European Communication Conference, ECREA, Hamburg 12-15. October 2010

Larsen, Leif Ove; Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2009) Copyright and Fair Use in a Culture of Clearance. The 19th Nordic Conference for Media and Communication Research, Karlstad, Sweden, 13.08.09 - 15.08.09

 

Ph.d-thesis (Viva coming up soon)
Torgeir Uberg Nærland's PHD-thesis is titled ”Music and the public sphere: Exploring the political significance of Norwegian hip hop music through the lens of public sphere theory”. By combining theoretical perspectives from public sphere theory and the sociology of music with empirical studies of aesthetical practice in musical genres, the aim of this project is to explore which role music play in relation to key democratic processes such as deliberation and the formation of opinion.

Torgeir is currently working on projects focusing on:
The rhetorical dimensions of musical communication and reception (initiated by the department´s rhetoric group).
Expressive culture and right wing populism in Europe.
The mediatization og welfare services in Norway (VAM)
Music and cultural citizenship among minority youth in Norway (RAM)
 
In addition Torgeir is interested in questions concerning copyright law and its consequences for cultural production.