Människorna, musiken och de mekaniska instrumenten i Norge cirka 1480-1890
Mats Krouthén defends his dissertation in musicology at the Faculty of Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences.
Summary of the study
An international history of mechanical musical instruments is well documented from a technological perspective (innovation, patents etc.), for instance musical clocks, barrel organs, musical box and organettes. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the specific region of Norway from a sociocultural narrative, by analyzing the emergence, distribution, and reception of these instruments. The hitherto unexplored Norwegian milieu is compared with the canonized European. The study is enabled by the rich sources of digitalized newspapers, domestic literature as well as well-registered extant mechanical instruments in museums. Four articles enlighten the mechanical instruments from various organological perspectives.
Link to the dissertation (GUPEA)
Thesis title
Människorna, musiken och de mekaniska instrumenten i Norge cirka 1480-1890 (People, music and the mechanical instruments in Norway around 1480-1890)
Opponent
Professor emeritus, Håkan Lundström, Lund University
Examining committee
Professor Karin Larsson Eriksson, Linnaeus University
Docent, Sanne Krogh Groth, Lund University
Professor emeritus, Tellef Kvifte, University of South-Eastern Norway
Substitute if member in the committee will be missing
Professor emeritus, Alf Björnberg, University of Gothenburg
Chair
Professor emeritus, Olle Edström, University of Gothenburg