Alf Arvidsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5433964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alf Arvidsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alf |
| FAMILY NAME | Arvidsson |
| SIGNATURE | ARVIDSSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8467-8753 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Den sista björnen som fälldes
The last bear brought down: hunting stories as testimonies to modernity In a longer series of interviews documenting storyteller Karl Bergqvist, he avoided the traditional entertaining hunting stories, claiming not to be a “big hunter”. Instead, he chose to tell stories of “the last” bear, wolf, and beaver being shot in his home region, thus holding on to the role of narrator of societal changes and ways of living during the 20th century. These s…
Kretensiska mantinádes i performans och komposition
Recension av: Sykäri, Venla 2011. Words as Events. Cretan Mantinádes in Performance and Composition. (Studia Fennica Folkloristica 18.) Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki. 224 s.
Recension av
Barbro Klein
Tell Your Story, Save Our Community
The present article focuses on how storytelling events serve as a tool in reinforcing local identity. The case study presented here centres on Bjurholm, a small rural town in northern Sweden, where a local storytelling society called Bjurholms Berättarakademi has been emphasizing municipal community building as a singularly important task. Initially offering public storytelling evenings and festivals celebrating prominent local storytellers, it s…
Berättande
“Narrative studies” is a rich, expanding, multi- and interdisciplinary field, where many definitions and uses of the term narrative flourish. This special issue focuses on narrating. The presented articles explore narrating as means for self-presentation and political struggle; as an activity formed in interplay and dialogue, formed by linguistic practices and situated in a complex web of power
Medhårs och mothårs
When doing cultural history research, the researcher can come across already established opinions of what the history is in a field. Aitologies, lists of heroes and masters, turning point anecdotes and written histories are present as more or less taken for granted within a community. This is a convenient starting-point and background material for a researcher, but can also hide more than it shows by confirming contemporary definitions, power rel…
Berättelse, beskrivning, auktoritet
This article analyses the flow of speeches during a ”storytelling evening” in a northern Sweden village, where people had been invited to tell stories about the times and the work when timber and tarbarrels were floated down the river. Focus is on how speakers claim authority and entitlement to have something to say, and how a large-scale hyper-narrative of “the floating epoch” is negotiated. Discussed in William Labov’s terms, although the resul…
Kulturlivets etnografi
This article proposes intensified studies in “culture life” or “the Arts” by way of an ethnography inspired by Howard Becker’s model of Art Worlds and focusing on how, where and by whom arts are made. This includes the situation where artists, brokers, audiences and critics meet but also the inclusion in criticism, academic education and art grants systems. A focus on situations would take notice of how the premises and present actors in the situ…
Gud går här på jorden i elva minuter och fyrtiosju sekunder
The problem of representing streches of time is discussed with examples from music. The exact chronological time measuring is put in contrast to the concept of experienced time, where in music the establishment of a mood may be relative the unique performance. Other models are briefly mentioned as well
Jan Johansson – tiden och musiken
By Erik Kjellberg. Hedemora, Sweden: Gidlunds forlag and the Swedish Royal Academy of Music, 2009. ISBN: 978‐91‐7844‐753‐4 (hardcover). Pp. 442, with accompanying 16‐track CD. 208 SEK. In Swedish
För Sverige i tiden
The theme of this issue of Kulturella Perspektiv is cultural perspectives on the Swedish royal family. Academic cultural approaches to monarchies and royal families are unusual, maybe because royalties are generally considered to be outdated political symbols. However during the last two decades there has been a growing interest within Nordic research on the royal families' mass media exposure. This is in line with a far more extended tradition i…
Kungen kommer
A Royal Visit to the provinces is a situation where geographical order and regional identities are visualised within an attention economy centering around the king. This study deals with the 22 official visits by the king to the county of Västerbotten during the years 1976-2008, as represented in local press, and analyses what images of the county that are put forward. Strong emphasis is put opon high-technology industrial production, tourism and…
Nya medieformer
Recension av: Dewdney, Andrew & Ride, Peter, The New Media Handbook. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006
Anmälningar och notiser
Recension av: Thomas Karlsohn, Passage mellan medier: Vilém Flusser, datorn och skriften. Göteborg: Folkuniversitetets akademiska press, 2006 och Klinkmann, Sven-Erik: På drömmarnas marknad, Ikoner, fantasibilder och klichéer i populärkulturen. Gidlunds förlag, Hedemora, 2006
Vänstervågen och populärmusiken 1965-1980
Sociologisk Forsknings digital arkiv
Proggens återkomst
Anmälningar och notiser
Recension av: Margareta Hallberg, Etnologisk koreografi. Att följa ett ämne i rörelse. Nora: Nya Doxa, 2001. Tiina Rosenberg, Queerfeministisk agenda. Stockholm: Bokförlaget Atlas, 2002. Annika Nordström, Syskonen Svensson: Sångerna och livet — en folklig repertoar i 1900-talets Göteborg. Skrifter från Etnologiska föreningen i Västsverige 39, 2002. Dan Lundberg & Gunnar Ternhag, Musiketnologi: En introduktion. Gidlunds förlag, 2002. Elizabeth L. …
Kulturliv och etnologi
The author discusses and makes an appeal for the study of the Arts within Swedish ethnology. There is much to gain from such studies. Literature, music, theatre, pictorial art etc. communicate, and give access to, central values within a culture. Expressing oneself through the arts is furthermore a strong means of identity politics. Finally, cultural notions of creativity are channeled, socially constructed, and mythologized through the arts
Musik och globalisering
This introduction points out some fields of interest concerning music and globalization. Music can be a result of global contact, as well as a focus of new contacts being made. The "postcolonial experience" is often articulated via music. "World music" is seen as a European way of coming to terms with global processes, as well as an opportunity for new states and ethnic groups to achieve international recognition. The ethical responsibilities of …
Människor mötas, och ljuv musik uppstår i hjärtat
In this article the author discusses how music is used for constructing concepts of love. In the analysis this is considered a complex interplay between music, experiences of love, narratives of love-experiences which offer models for romantic music, and arranged love-meetings where music is present as a means of ritualizing the event. The images of love present in the narratives or listeners to a radio request programme as well as the answers fr…
Anmälningar och notiser
Recension av: Christine Geraghty: Women and Soap Opera. A Study of Prime Time Soaps. Andra upplagan. Polity Press, 1992. Jackie Jakubowski (red.): Judisk identitet. Natur och kultur, 1993. Ulf Palmenfelt: Per Arvid Säves möten med människor och sägner. Carlssons, 1993
En kulturanalytisk medieforskning
In this issue of Kulturella Perspektiv we want to present some examples of media research with a more qualitative approach than the traditional mass communication research with its quantitative sociological orientation
När hände 1968
The present article begins with a discussion of how "the Sixties" and "1968" became significant ideological concepts in public debate, used in order to contrast ideas concerning the societies of today and tomorrow. Furthermore, this article advocates that the 1960s be considered an object of critical ethnological research, which identifies and emphasizes the long-term changes in cultural patterns which constitute the dynamics of the 1950s, 60s an…
Anmälningar och notiser
Recension av: Åke Daun: Den europeiska identiteten: Bidrag till samtal om Sveriges framtid. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1992. Ann-Kristin Ekman: Community, Carnival and Campaign: Expressions of belonging in a Swedish Region. Stockholm: Studies in Social Anthropology, 1991 (Diss.). Gunnar Ternhag: Hjort Anders Olsson. Hedemora: Gidlunds bokförlag, 1992. Märta Ramsten: Återklang. Svensk folkmusik i förändring 1950 —1980. Stockholm, 1992 (Svenskt vi…
Tell Your Story, Save Our Community
The present article focuses on how storytelling events serve as a tool in reinforcing local identity. The case study presented here centres on Bjurholm, a small rural town in northern Sweden, where a local storytelling society called Bjurholms Berättarakademi has been emphasizing municipal community building as a singularly important task. Initially offering public storytelling evenings and festivals celebrating prominent local storytellers, it s…
Anmälningar och notiser
Recension av: Åke Daun: Den europeiska identiteten: Bidrag till samtal om Sveriges framtid. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1992. Ann-Kristin Ekman: Community, Carnival and Campaign: Expressions of belonging in a Swedish Region. Stockholm: Studies in Social Anthropology, 1991 (Diss.). Gunnar Ternhag: Hjort Anders Olsson. Hedemora: Gidlunds bokförlag, 1992. Märta Ramsten: Återklang. Svensk folkmusik i förändring 1950 —1980. Stockholm, 1992 (Svenskt vi…
När hände 1968
The present article begins with a discussion of how "the Sixties" and "1968" became significant ideological concepts in public debate, used in order to contrast ideas concerning the societies of today and tomorrow. Furthermore, this article advocates that the 1960s be considered an object of critical ethnological research, which identifies and emphasizes the long-term changes in cultural patterns which constitute the dynamics of the 1950s, 60s an…
Anmälningar och notiser
Recension av: Christine Geraghty: Women and Soap Opera. A Study of Prime Time Soaps. Andra upplagan. Polity Press, 1992. Jackie Jakubowski (red.): Judisk identitet. Natur och kultur, 1993. Ulf Palmenfelt: Per Arvid Säves möten med människor och sägner. Carlssons, 1993
En kulturanalytisk medieforskning
In this issue of Kulturella Perspektiv we want to present some examples of media research with a more qualitative approach than the traditional mass communication research with its quantitative sociological orientation
Människor mötas, och ljuv musik uppstår i hjärtat
In this article the author discusses how music is used for constructing concepts of love. In the analysis this is considered a complex interplay between music, experiences of love, narratives of love-experiences which offer models for romantic music, and arranged love-meetings where music is present as a means of ritualizing the event. The images of love present in the narratives or listeners to a radio request programme as well as the answers fr…
Musik och globalisering
This introduction points out some fields of interest concerning music and globalization. Music can be a result of global contact, as well as a focus of new contacts being made. The "postcolonial experience" is often articulated via music. "World music" is seen as a European way of coming to terms with global processes, as well as an opportunity for new states and ethnic groups to achieve international recognition. The ethical responsibilities of …
Kulturliv och etnologi
The author discusses and makes an appeal for the study of the Arts within Swedish ethnology. There is much to gain from such studies. Literature, music, theatre, pictorial art etc. communicate, and give access to, central values within a culture. Expressing oneself through the arts is furthermore a strong means of identity politics. Finally, cultural notions of creativity are channeled, socially constructed, and mythologized through the arts
Anmälningar och notiser
Recension av: Margareta Hallberg, Etnologisk koreografi. Att följa ett ämne i rörelse. Nora: Nya Doxa, 2001. Tiina Rosenberg, Queerfeministisk agenda. Stockholm: Bokförlaget Atlas, 2002. Annika Nordström, Syskonen Svensson: Sångerna och livet — en folklig repertoar i 1900-talets Göteborg. Skrifter från Etnologiska föreningen i Västsverige 39, 2002. Dan Lundberg & Gunnar Ternhag, Musiketnologi: En introduktion. Gidlunds förlag, 2002. Elizabeth L. …
Proggens återkomst
Vänstervågen och populärmusiken 1965-1980
Sociologisk Forsknings digital arkiv
Anmälningar och notiser
Recension av: Thomas Karlsohn, Passage mellan medier: Vilém Flusser, datorn och skriften. Göteborg: Folkuniversitetets akademiska press, 2006 och Klinkmann, Sven-Erik: På drömmarnas marknad, Ikoner, fantasibilder och klichéer i populärkulturen. Gidlunds förlag, Hedemora, 2006
Nya medieformer
Recension av: Dewdney, Andrew & Ride, Peter, The New Media Handbook. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006
För Sverige i tiden
The theme of this issue of Kulturella Perspektiv is cultural perspectives on the Swedish royal family. Academic cultural approaches to monarchies and royal families are unusual, maybe because royalties are generally considered to be outdated political symbols. However during the last two decades there has been a growing interest within Nordic research on the royal families' mass media exposure. This is in line with a far more extended tradition i…
Kungen kommer
A Royal Visit to the provinces is a situation where geographical order and regional identities are visualised within an attention economy centering around the king. This study deals with the 22 official visits by the king to the county of Västerbotten during the years 1976-2008, as represented in local press, and analyses what images of the county that are put forward. Strong emphasis is put opon high-technology industrial production, tourism and…
Jan Johansson – tiden och musiken
By Erik Kjellberg. Hedemora, Sweden: Gidlunds forlag and the Swedish Royal Academy of Music, 2009. ISBN: 978‐91‐7844‐753‐4 (hardcover). Pp. 442, with accompanying 16‐track CD. 208 SEK. In Swedish
Gud går här på jorden i elva minuter och fyrtiosju sekunder
The problem of representing streches of time is discussed with examples from music. The exact chronological time measuring is put in contrast to the concept of experienced time, where in music the establishment of a mood may be relative the unique performance. Other models are briefly mentioned as well
Kulturlivets etnografi
This article proposes intensified studies in “culture life” or “the Arts” by way of an ethnography inspired by Howard Becker’s model of Art Worlds and focusing on how, where and by whom arts are made. This includes the situation where artists, brokers, audiences and critics meet but also the inclusion in criticism, academic education and art grants systems. A focus on situations would take notice of how the premises and present actors in the situ…
Berättande
“Narrative studies” is a rich, expanding, multi- and interdisciplinary field, where many definitions and uses of the term narrative flourish. This special issue focuses on narrating. The presented articles explore narrating as means for self-presentation and political struggle; as an activity formed in interplay and dialogue, formed by linguistic practices and situated in a complex web of power
Medhårs och mothårs
When doing cultural history research, the researcher can come across already established opinions of what the history is in a field. Aitologies, lists of heroes and masters, turning point anecdotes and written histories are present as more or less taken for granted within a community. This is a convenient starting-point and background material for a researcher, but can also hide more than it shows by confirming contemporary definitions, power rel…
Berättelse, beskrivning, auktoritet
This article analyses the flow of speeches during a ”storytelling evening” in a northern Sweden village, where people had been invited to tell stories about the times and the work when timber and tarbarrels were floated down the river. Focus is on how speakers claim authority and entitlement to have something to say, and how a large-scale hyper-narrative of “the floating epoch” is negotiated. Discussed in William Labov’s terms, although the resul…
Barbro Klein
Tell Your Story, Save Our Community
The present article focuses on how storytelling events serve as a tool in reinforcing local identity. The case study presented here centres on Bjurholm, a small rural town in northern Sweden, where a local storytelling society called Bjurholms Berättarakademi has been emphasizing municipal community building as a singularly important task. Initially offering public storytelling evenings and festivals celebrating prominent local storytellers, it s…
Kretensiska mantinádes i performans och komposition
Recension av: Sykäri, Venla 2011. Words as Events. Cretan Mantinádes in Performance and Composition. (Studia Fennica Folkloristica 18.) Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki. 224 s.
Recension av
Den sista björnen som fälldes
The last bear brought down: hunting stories as testimonies to modernity In a longer series of interviews documenting storyteller Karl Bergqvist, he avoided the traditional entertaining hunting stories, claiming not to be a “big hunter”. Instead, he chose to tell stories of “the last” bear, wolf, and beaver being shot in his home region, thus holding on to the role of narrator of societal changes and ways of living during the 20th century. These s…
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