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Panel 3 – arts
In musicology the average number of publications (including books) and
conference papers are about 2 a year. The majority of the publications are
in Swedish and published in Sweden, most of the exceptions are conference
papers in English by one doctoral student and first and foremost
contributions to the study of music and Nazism in Germany and Sweden
by professor Andersson and research assistant Ursula Geisler, research
that has resulted in a book (in Swedish) on ‘Myth and Propaganda. Music
in the Service of Nazism in Sweden and Germany’ (2007). Relations
between music and politics are a recurrent theme in the publications from
this division of the department.
Research quality: The research in semiotics which is basically the result
of a one man venture, i.e. the work of Göran Sonesson, is internationally
recognized.
The musicological research in the field of the social and political context
and role of music is leading in Sweden, and does internationally represent
development of an important field of research.
Research in Art and visual studies are at the national level.
Relevance: Several publications in the field of art are related to exhibitions
and thus examples of interaction with the world of art and galleries
as it is also the case with other publications that analyse contemporary
artists. The studies in social and political aspects of music should be
highlighted as important contributions to musicology as cultural history
in a broader sense than is usual in the field. In an international as well
as a national perspective these studies approach difficult questions in the
cultural historical memory, and some of the publications are of a popularizing
character. Both art history and musicology thus relate in each their
way to the Swedish public. The general studies in the field of images, not
least the semiotic contributions, point in the direction of interesting and
important interactions between areas of research that usually are far from
each other.
Vitality: The contributions to semiotics in the period under consideration
in the evaluation represent a continuation of a long and steady commitment
to the field that is so much more remarkable as it is mainly taken
care of by one person. The research in music and politics represents an
energetic renewal in the field of musicology. The uneven output in Art
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