Browsing Institutt for musikkvitenskap by Author "Størvold, Tore"
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Music and the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant: Style, Aesthetics, and Environmental Politics in Iceland Størvold, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article bridges ecocriticism and popular music analysis in a close reading of three examples that respond musically to environmental debates in Iceland during the period 2006–2009. Political-environmental tensions in ...
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Størvold, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article presents a musicological and ecocritical close reading of the song “Brennisteinn” (“sulphur” or, literally, “burning rock”) by the acclaimed post-rock band Sigur Rós. The song— and its accompanying music ...
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Størvold, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Since the international breakthrough of The Sugarcubes and Björk in the late 1980s, the Anglophone discourse surrounding Icelandic popular music has proven to be the latest instance of a long history of representation in ...