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This forthcoming week the project I’m leading will hold an international symposium which brings together leading academics form the USA, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Ireland and Norway. Time and place: 4 June 2013, 02:00 PM – 06:30 PM, Salen, ZEB-building, Dept. of Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway Add to calendar The research project Popular Music and […]
Newly appointed General Editor for the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. In the first instance I will be co-editor with Professor Derek Scott until 2015 on his retirement. Download the catalogue of recent book releases here!    
Eirik Askerøi graduates with a PhD in popular music from University of Agder, Kristiansand. Title of thesis: Reading Pop Production: Sonic Markers and Musical Identity For details in Norwegian click here    
  This article is in Norwegian and called “Lady Gaga – født sånn!”  It was published on request from NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) just prior to the artist’s recent concert in Oslo.