Associate Professor Stan Hawkins

Musicologist, Composer & Performer
University of Oslo, Norway

O t h e r  A c a d e m i c  P o s t s :

IASPM-Norden (Norwegian Chair)

Editorial of Studia Musicologica Norvegica Journal

Salford University, Manchester - Senior Lecturer & Director of the Popular Music Research Unit (1987-95)

E d u c a t i o n :

PhD: Frankfurt State College of Music & York University

BMus: Natal University

M a i n  P u b l i c a t i o n s :

Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Gendered Identity (forthcoming)

‘Feel the Beat Come Down: House Music as Rhetoric’ in Allan Moore (ed.): Analysing Popular Music, (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming).

20 articles for Danish Gads Musiclex 2000 (Gads forlag, forthcoming 2000).

19 articles for the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, volume 1: The Industry, Contexts and Musical Practices (ed. Shepherd, Horn, Laing, Oliver and Wicke, Cassell).

Article on Prince for the 2nd edition of the New Grove (ed. Sadie, Macmillan).

Article on Prince in The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought, ed. S. Sim, Icon Books 1998, pp. 342-343.

‘Prince: Harmonic Analysis of "Anna Stesia" in Richard Middleton (ed.): Reading Pop, Oxford University Press, 1999.

‘Musical Excess and Postmodernism in Björk’s "It’s Oh So Quiet" - a critical analysis of a video, an artist, postmodernism and identity formation’ in Musiik in Suunta (Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology), October 1999.

‘Konstruksjoner av musikk og animasjon I Peter Gabriels "Digging in the Dirt"’ in K. Rune (ed.) Animation Magazine Norsk Kulturråd, 1999, pp. 92-97.

‘Tuning into the late 20th century chasm: Det ‘populære’ versus det ‘seriøse’ in Parergon - Norwegian Journal of Contemporary Music,1999.

Popular Musicology, edited with Derek Scott, Vol.3 6/98.

‘Symphonic Threads in Contemporary Popular Music in Brinkhuis and Talmor (eds.): Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium, ISSEI/Cambridge MA 1998.

‘I’ll Never Be An Angel: Stories of Deception in Madonna’s Music; Critical Musicology Journal, 1997.

‘The Pet Shop Boys: Musicology, masculinity, and banality’ in S.Whiteley (ed.): Sexing the Groove: popular music and gender ; Routledge 1997, pp. 118-133.

‘Perspectives in popular musicology: music, Lennox and meaning in 1990s pop; Popular Music 15/1, 1996, pp. 17-36.

‘New Perspectives in Musicology: Musical Structures, Codes and Meaning in 1990s Pop’ in Straw, Johnson, Sullivan and Friedlander (eds.): Popular Music - Style and Identity; CRCCII Canada 1995, pp. 131-136.

‘Being Banal: The Pet Shop Boys’ in Stockdale, Scott and Hawkins (eds.), Popular Musicology, 1995: 2, pp. 25-38.

Review of An Aesthetics of the Popular Arts: An Approach to the Popular Arts from the Aesthetic Point of View by S-B Park, Popular Music 13/2, 1994, pp. 233-235.

‘Stylistic Diversification in Prince of the Nineties: An analysis of the album "Diamonds and Pearls"’; Skriftserie, 1992: 4 (University of Oslo).

‘Prince: Harmonic Analysis of "Anna Stesia"’, Popular Music 11/3, 1992, pp. 325-336.

S o m e  R e c e n t  L e c t u r e s  a t  O s l o :

Music and Identity

Music in Media Culture

Analytical Methodologies in Popular Music Research

Pop Video Analysis

Popular Musicology