Marita Rhedin
About Marita Rhedin
Research
My doctoral thesis from 2011, Singing story-tellers: the singing of visa on the public stage from 1900 to 1970, deals with the literary visa and its representatives on the stage. Based on recordings, the genre is followed from the lute singers and peasant comedians of the early 20th century, through the revival of the visa in the 1930s and 1940s, to the visa wave in the 1960s with the likes of Fred Åkerström and Cornelis Vreeswijk. The focus is performance practice, i.e. the identification of characteristic features for the performance of the visa on the public stage, and how this has changed over time.
Influenced by ethnomusicological thinking, and trained as a singer and vocal teacher, also my present research projects concern various techniques, functions and meanings of singing.
Teaching
At the Department of Cultural Sciences I teach Musicology, Scandinavian Studies, the Bachelor’s programme Kultur, as well as in the Teacher Education Programme. I also have responsibility for several modules on the mentioned courses.
External relations and activities
From 2006 to 2014 representatives from the University of Gothenburg, Folkuniversitetet, and Svenska visakademin together arranged a series of seminars around the life and works of Evert Taube. The seminars gathered a number of prominent artists and researchers and resulted, among other things, in an anthology and several well-attended public concerts with interspersed lectures. As an extension of this project, the same partners are now collaborating around a project on Swedish songbooks, with the purpose of examining the canonization of the repertoire, and highlight lesser known songs and auteurs.
I am a trained vocal coach, with studies from the Ingesund Folk High School's music programme, Malmö Academy of Music and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and run parallel freelance activities as a singer.
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Rösträttens sånger – de höjde sina röster för att
höras
Marita Rhedin
Demokrati100.se - 2021-01-01 -
Håll alla dörrar
öppna
Marita Rhedin
- 2020-01-01 -
Röst möter text - Den sjungna texten som berättelse, gestaltning och
ljud/klang
Marita Rhedin
Fattigmannsblommer - Om Vidar Sandbecks forfatterskap / Ole Karlsen og Eva-Marie Syversen (red.) - 2019-01-01 -
Barbro Hörberg, Barbara och Sommarö : om influens kvinnliga sånglyriker
emellan
Marita Rhedin
Nordisk poesi - 2017-01-01 -
The Troubadours - Stylistic and Sociocultural Transformations of the Literary Visa in the
1960s
Marita Rhedin
Made in Sweden - Studies in Popular Music / edited by Alf Björnberg and Thomas Bossius - 2017-01-01 -
Röst möter text - Det fysiska gestaltandet av
sångtexten
Marita Rhedin
KONFERENSRAPPORT Det sjungna ordet: forskningsperspektiv på mötet mellan text, musik och framförande Linnéuniversitetet i Växjö 25–27 november 2015 Redaktörer: Viveka Hellström och Karin Strand - 2016-01-01 -
Evert Taube som vissångare - i ljuset av en känd
föregångare
Marita Rhedin
Elva sidor av Taube [en antologi / redaktörer: David Anthin & Andreas Åhs] - 2014-01-01 -
Sjungande berättare - vissång som estradkonst
1900–1970
Marita Rhedin
- 2011-01-01 -
Litterär visa - termen och
företeelsen
Marita Rhedin
Noterat - 2010-01-01