How Do Musicologists Celebrate Christmas?

It’s starting to look a lot like work party (Julebord) season, and we are excited to brag about ours shamelessly, but also ask: what makes a good celebration between colleagues? 

In the last show of the 2024 season, Julie, Kristina, Aleksander and Ieva sit down to chat about how musicologists celebrate Christmas. By sharing the perspectives of our party committee and our in-house band, we reflect on the importance of collective music-making, listen to some tunes, and have some laughs. 

References:

Wham! - Last Christmas

Vazelina Bilopphøggers - Hem'att tel jul

Oslo fagottkor - Running To The Sea

Carola and Viktor Norén - Stjärnorna lyser för oss

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.