The Music Talkshow | Songs from the Inside

This episode of the Music Talkshow is on the complex theme of music-making in prisons. IMV researchers Áine Mangaoang and Lucy Cathcart Frödén share tracks written or recorded in prisons in Norway, Iceland and Ireland, and discuss connections between music-making, identity and mental health, and the role music and shared creative processes could play in alternatives to incarceration. Along the way they’ll share recorded excerpts of a public conversation earlier in 2023 with special guest, Norwegian Hip Hop artist Belizio.

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What is The Music Talkshow?

“Music Talkshow” is a musicology dissemination show by our local University of Oslo early career music and sound researchers – PhD’s and postdocs. How do we communicate our research to the “outside” world? How do we maintain our relevance to society as academics? People who write about music, but not the music itself? In other words, how does our work relate to the real world, and how does the real-world manifests in our work?

In this show, we tackle these unanswerable questions with a light-hearted approach: through informal conversations, sound and music examples, and perhaps some experiments. We hope to bridge the gap between those who wonder about music casually and those who do that professionally – from prospective students to lifelong music fans, fidelity nerds, and helpless cheesy romantics. By doing so, we will leave our own comfort zones to show the diversity of the academic community to showcase new voices and sounds, encourage participation, and take an alternative turn on the University.