Karin Eriksson

Karin Eriksson

Post doctor
Faculty of Humanities, Sports and Educational Science
Department of Traditional Arts and Traditional Music
Campus Rauland
Karin Eriksson is an ethnomusicologist and a postdoctoral researcher with the project Embodying Traditions: Exploring Gendered Spaces in Traditional Dance and Music in Norway and Sweden (2023-2026). Her main research interests are traditional music in the Nordic countries and the intersections towards popular music and dance, with special focus on issues of musical and cultural belongings, intangible cultural heritagisation, gender and queer research.

Responsibilities

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Supervision: Bachelor programme in Traditional Music and Master Programme in Traditional Arts 

Competences

Traditional music in Scandinavia; ethnomusicology; popular music studies; music, identity and belongings; dance, embodiments and movements; ritual; intangible cultural heritagisation; sensory ethnography; queer and gender theory. 

She holds a PhD in Musicology from Uppsala University (2017), conducted in collaboration with The Centre of Folk Music and Jazz Research/Svenskt visarkiv in Stockholm, which includes one semester as ERASMUS PhD student in Ethnomusicology at Royal Holloway, University of London (2014) and as exchange PhD student at Institute of Culture and Memory Research in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2015). She has worked as senior lecturer in Sound and Music Production at Dalarna University and in Musicology at Uppsala University, Linnaeus University and Örebro University and as a researcher at The Centre of Folk Music and Jazz Research in Sweden (2018-2021) and at The Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (2021-2022). In 2020 and 2021 she was editor of Musikk og tradisjon, the peer-reviewed journal of Norsk Folkemusikklag, the Norwegian National Committee of the International Council for Traditional Music.

 

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