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Amatörrockmusikers musikskapande En studie i rockmusikers låtskrivande
(2014-02-18) Maass, Michelle; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
Amatörrockmusikers musikskapande - En studie i rockmusikers låtskrivande, är en magisteruppsats om hur gehörsbaserade musiker använder sig av olika strategier och formler för att samarbeta och skriva musik. Genom att intervjua fyra amatörrockband har en analysmodell kunnat ställas upp, vilken ger en varierad bild av samarbetet och skapandet inom bandens kreativa fas. Huvudfrågan lyder: Vilka kreativa strukturer och arbetsmetoder förekommer inom amatörrockbands skapandeprocesser? Genom en jämförande analys av bandens låtar konstateras det att arbetssätten och samarbetet varierar, inte bara banden emellan, utan även inom banden. Dessutom spelar de digitala medierna en framträdande roll inom det moderna låtskapandet.
”Det anstår mig inte att göra mig mindre än jag är” - skönhetsidealet och den kvinnliga grotesken i textanalyser av Kerstin Ekmans Grand Final i skojarbranschen, Muriel Barberys Igelkottens elegans och Majgull Axelssons Moderspassion
(2013-10-11) Holm, Carina; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
The purpose of this paper is to make a feminist textual analysis of three female protagonists in contemporary novels in order to demonstrate representations of ”skeva” female bodies, deviant from beauty-, slender and age norms. The analysis is based on an intersectional perspective which demonstrates the interaction between body, sex, gender, class, sexuality and age. The theoretical material used are class theories by Bourdieu and Skeggs, performative theories by Butler, theories of grotesque realism by Bachtin and the female grotesque by Russo and Lundberg. The characters all belong to the genre of the female grotesque which manifests a feminist protest and a free zone within patriarchal power structures. To ”cite” gender wrong, as Butler suggests, seems to create gender dislocation able to include unfeminine, aging, lower class female representations as protagonists in literature.
Att dras mot stadens ljusa lyktor - En undersökning om de kreativa näringarna i Göteborg
(2013-12-13) Teglund, Anders; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
The purpose of this study is to investigate which types of cultural capital gives high status in the current field of ”the creative industry” – a group which could be seen as a new power elite in Gothenburg – and how people with the ”right” cultural capital is included in the field. The author is invited to several free events within this field, and is investigating the process of inclusion with an auto-ethnographic method. The study will show that the process of inclusion is working quite absolute in the field of the creative industry, and that the audiences are mainly homogenous: masculine, white, middle class, has a taste disposition of the ”eclectic omnivore”, has entrepreneurial knowledges and is an active social media agent. It also shows that their ideals of “tolerance” and “openness” are just another aspect of power through inclusion. The distinction of taste and cultural capital may be more subtle and sophisticated than before in Gothenburg, but is nonetheless still very exclusive.
Barns och ungas tillgång till kultur - En studie om strukturer, handlingsutrymme och agens i Göteborgs Stad
(2022-03-16) Ahlqvist, Petra; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
Article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasizes that all children have the right to participate fully in cultural and artistic life. The goal has been to investigate how the City of Gothenburg works with the issue that all children should have the opportunity to participate. In the essay, I have interviewed people who work with art and culture for children and young people and studied some of the governing documents Gothenburg works with. The aim was to find out how the City of Gothenburg works to ensure that all children and young people have access to art and culture. With the help of the structuring theory, the work has consisted of seeing who has the agency, the opportunity for social action and how the discursive and practical consciousness is seen. What became a key word was equality as several of the initiatives in the city's Plan for Children and Young Culture focused on creating a more equal relationship.
Conjunction of the spheres. The struggle for hegemony in the English language online reception of Netflix adaption: The Witcher.
(2024-02-06) R. Kern, Sarah; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
This essay uses the concepts of convergence culture, transmedia and hegemony, to understand the struggles within the English language reception to Netflix Tv production “The Witcher.” In order to help the reader, the essay presents the background to the larger Witcher franchise, as well as standard debates and issues within the fantasy genre, the role-playing-game genre and convergence culture.
Emigration och Amerikabild - Om utvandrarens bildvärld och världsbild med utgångspunkt i emigrationen från Västernorrland till Amerika 1901-1909
(2010-07-08) Nyström, Ann; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
I uppsatsen undersöks bildens betydelse för den svenska utvandringen till Amerika vid 1900- talets början. Utgångspunkten är i Västernorrland och en analys av Örnsköldsviks Allehanda, Allers Familj-Journal och Hvita Stjern-Liniens rederibroschyr. Under antagandet att varje bild fick ett större nyhetsvärde i en mer bildfattig kultur än den vi har idag och sparades under en längre tid är syftet att undersöka den blivande emigrantens bildvärld och världsbild. Frågor som behandlas är: I vilket källmaterial förekom bilder, vilken funktion fyllde de och vilken kunskap om Amerika kan den blivande emigranten tänkas ha haft? Vidare behandlas emigrantens bildbiografi, emigrationsbildens ontologi och bilden som emigrationspåverkande faktor. Inflytande från foton, svenskamerikaner på hembesök, vykort och andra visuella uttryck diskuteras. Bild och text analyseras tillsammans och var för sig för att komma åt bildens självständighet eller illustrerande syfte. En spegling sker i den rådande samhällsutvecklingen och emigrationsdebatten, utvandringens orsaker, karaktär och omfattning i Västernorrland samt den massproducerade bildens och tidningarnas expansion. Slutsatserna är att bilden hade en påverkan på emigrationen tillsammans med andra faktorer. Den blivande emigrantens bildbiografi och världsbild var relativt stor då nyheter om Amerika spreds genom många bilder tillhörande emigrationsbildens ontologi. This thesis, for a degree of Master of Science (One Year) in Art History and Visual Studies, deals with the impact of different kinds of images on the Swedish mass emigration from Västernorrland in the first decade of the twentieth century. The conclusion is that although images were rare, they expressed a pull on emigration and contributed to create an emigrant’s image biography of Northern America. The emigrants were well informed before departure and pictures shown in postcards, photos and other sources belong to an emigrant image ontology. The images, either from seeing pictures or as memories of experienced visual events, impacted the emigration together with other push factors such as economic ones.
Filmen i Albanien. Bildnings- eller propagandaverktyg.
(2016-04-05) Gecaj, Vranin; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
This essay will examine historically the Albanian Cinematography through four different periods. The first period will examine the years between 1905-1918´s and treats the early years of Albanian Cinematography. During this period Albania had been occupied by the Ottoman Empire for the last 450 years and in 1912 the state of Albania was created. The second period will examine the year´s between 1918-1945, when different countries such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany occupied Albania. The essay will show how did this period influenced the Cinematography in Albania. The third period will examine the years between 1945-1990, the period is known of it isolated communist rule or as the cold war era. It is after 1945 that the Albanian National Cinematography develops. The fourth period will cover 1990´s the post-cold war period. During this last period, the Albanian Cinematography dealt with difficulties. This paper is a contribute within the Film Studies about the Albanian Cinematography in the Goteborg’s University and it will try to answer two main questions. The first question is: was the Cinematography in Albania in the service of the different regimes during the 1900? The second question to answer is: did the film had an educating role in Albanian society as the domestic literature claims? During the study of Albanian Cinematography I had to double check the sources in order to be certain about the facts that was published in this essay. I used the “critical eye” when i examined the sources to avoid being the messenger of the particular regime. I came to two conclusions: The film was used by the different regimes to legitimize their own rule in Albania but they couldn´t stop the film´s power as a part of the education process. The history of Albanian Cinematography is particular because it was influenced by different film styles and regimes during the 1900´s and has gained its own film identity. The historical film has become the future film.
FRANZ VON BAYROS FARLIGA FEMININER Undersökning av Bilder aus dem Boudoir der Madame C.C
(2010-11-12) Forssmed, Ninni; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
Uppsatsen handlar om det tidiga 1900-talets syn på kvinnor och sexualitet. Utgångspunkten för undersökningen är Franz von Bayros portfölj av erotiska bilder Bilder aus dem Boudoir der Madame C.C. från 1912. Huvudsyftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om och hur den tidens syn på kvinnor och sexualitet kan ses i dessa bilder. Detta är genomfört genom en deskriptiv analys av de trettio bilder som är med i denna samling och genom att sedan sätta teman från bilderna mot teorier och idéer från decennierna före och efter sekelskiftet 1900. Perspektivet är ett genusperspektiv och ett idehistoriskt perspektiv enligt Max Dvořák, där konsten är ett uttryck för idéer och därmed en produkt av sin tid. Slutsatsen är att många av de teorier om kvinnlighet och sexualitet som framfördes på tiden kring sekelskiftet 1900 går att se reflekterade till stor del i dessa bilder. Men även hur vissa teman visar på smaker och idéer som till viss del är annorlunda från teoretikernas idéer, om än bara som en fantasivärld.
FUNK’N’ROSES? EN MUSIKTEORETISK STUDIE AV FUNK I HEAVY METAL
(2018-08-01) Berg, Daniel; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
GarageBand eller Logic Pro? En studie i föreställningar om professionalitet och konsten att välja arbetsredskap inom digital musikproduktion
(2023-10-04) Winerö, Fredrik; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
GarageBand and Logic Pro are Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) developed by Apple for recording and producing music. The former comes for free with every Mac, iPhone or iPad while the latter comes with a price tag and are marketed to the professionals. Although Logic Pro has more features, GarageBand has gradually become more advanced to the point where the average consumer can make a recording that sounds professional on their iPhone. This democratization of advanced technology challenges the status and identity of the professional music producer, which in turn can make their choice of DAW important for reasons beyond their technical requirements. This thesis investigates to what extent the professionals view of music technology is guided by technical reasoning related to the actual production of music, versus social reasoning related to discourses about what it means to be a professional. Using the theory of discursive fields, wherein discourses competes about giving meaning to a discipline, I analyze interviews with professionals using Apple products and their reasoning in relation to GarageBand and Logic Pro. My study demonstrates that there’s a correlation between the notion of professionalism and marketing within the discursive field of music production. In other words: To be fully recognized as a professional, you probably need to use Logic Pro – even if GarageBand meets your technical requirements. It also demonstrates how notions about professionalism and attitudes towards music technology can be related to gender.
Göteborg International Film Festival Fund - Internationell kulturpolitik och strategiskt utvecklingsarbete
(2013-11-27) Abazovic, Davor; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
The aim of this research is to examine the Göteborg International Film Festival Fund (GIFFF, 1998–2011) as a part of the festival's overall operations, to provide answers to questions about if/how the Fund can be understood as an expression of the festival's fundamental values, and how the Fund can be recognized within the festival's strategic development. The GIFFF is also discussed in relation to contemporary academic studies that interpret Western film funds for the developing countries – such as Hubert Bals Fund and Fond Sud Cinéma – as an expression of Eurocentrism. The investigation is based on the contemporary film festival research, previous academic studies on Göteborg International Film Festival, the festival’s printed material – such as programs and press releases – as well as interviews with the former festival director Gunnar Bergdahl, who initiated the Fund, and festival editor Ulf Sigvardson, who ran the Fund during its final years of existence. The conclusions are: The Fund's objectives – such as to support filmmakers and film schools in the developing countries, and also to screen their films at the festival – can be seen as a broader interpretation of the vision that was determined by the festival founders, that the festival should be a platform for independent filmmaking and also help screen the films that otherwise would not reach the Swedish audience. Also, the Fund was a significant part of the festival's expansion strategies during the 1990s. The establishing of the Fund enabled more opportunities for cultural-political work on an international level. It also helped to spread the festival's reputation within the global film festival network, among global filmmakers, and to the countries without stable structures for film production. The Fund was also a strategy for an extended work according to the festival's fundamental values. Despite the obvious benefits the Fund had for the less fortunate filmmakers to make their voices heard, it also – though unintentionally – operated within a context that the contemporary film festival research argues can be recognized as an expression of Eurocentrism.
Göteborgs stadsmuseum mellan teori och praktik - En diskursanalytisk studie av museiverksamhet i en ökat marknadsorienterad omvärld
(2013-05-03) Andersson, Johan; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
The aim of this Master’s thesis is to research how the Göteborg City Museum places their organization in a context of culture policies and museology.The discursive analysis constitutes the methodical frame for this thesis. According to the analysis of this thesis, since an increasing influence of a market-oriented discourse, an antagonism between a sociological pathos and a market-oriented instrumentality seems to be the major theoretical clash at the museum. Inside the organization though, the personnel lacks broader insights concerning these theoretical conflicts, but the stressed economic situation creates no room for further theorization. There is a risk to get caught in a market-oriented discourse where there is no time to reflect on the effects of the discourse because of the lack of time that the discourse itself generates. It is central for the reliability of museums in society to find arenas for such theoretical discussions.
GRAVMONUMENTET I HÄLLSTAD: ETT VISUELLT SKÅDESPEL FRÅN 1100-TALET
(2012-05-11) Öhnell, Ida; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
The aim of this master thesis is to study the reliefs of a Romanesque tombstone from 1130 AD, with the intention to form a plausible understanding of their meaning. During the course of the investigation, my main focus will be on collecting materials of an iconographical and historiographical nature, as they appear in previous studies. I will also use performative analysis when examining the tombstone. Consequently this thesis can be seen as a survey of history and place; early Christian iconology as well as the experience of the viewer. As a result, the 900-year-old tombstone will not only be seen as a memorial in this text, but also as a performance of one man’s faith and as representing the core message of the early Christian church. The tombstone is a rarity in Swedish art history and well worth a closer examination. It consists of five different image reliefs on three sandstones, displaying humans (for example swordsmen and monks), dragons, crosses, animals and ornate vines.
Helande, härligt och helt förfärligt: Om upplevelsen av musik och ljud för personer med utmattningssyndrom
(2011-12-05) Olsson, Ida; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
Den här uppsatsen är en fallstudie baserad på djupintervjuer med personer som har, eller har haft, utmattningssyndrom om hur de uppfattar och använder sig av musik och ljud i samband med sjukdomen. Den tar upp både deras positiva och negativa upplevelser och syftet är att göra en inventering av hur sjukdomen påverkar deras musikbruk. Studien visar att informanterna både medvetet och omedvetet använder sig av musik för att reglera, komma i kontakt med och få utlopp för sina känslor. Musiken blir ett redskap för självterapi och till en bättre existentiell hälsa. Musiken kan också ge starkt negativa fysiska och psykiska reaktioner och påverka det allmänna hälsotillståndet hos informanterna. Det är individuellt vilken musik som är kopplat till vilka känslor, minnen och upplevelser och musiken påverkar olika personer på olika sätt. Studien visar även att ljudkänslighet är vanligt förekommande bland informanterna och att det påverkar de drabbade negativt att inte kunna kontrolla ljudexponeringen de utsätts för.
Instabila processer i visuell kultur
(2010-07-08) Sandahl, Ann-Louise; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
I uppsatsen undersöks instabila processer i visuell kultur på två plan: i tid och rum och i material och metoder. Den tar upp vad instabila processer i visuell kultur är uttryck för och vad processerna får för konsekvenser för konstbegreppet. Inledningsvis kartläggs hur Nicolas Bourriaud, Lev Manovich, Mieke Bal, Manuel Castells och Miwon Kwon beskriver kulturella instabila processer. I syfte att undersöka om teorierna går att tillämpa på visuella uttryck utförs därefter en empirisk analys av musikvideor av Coldplay, Radiohead och Röyksopp. Också en jämförande analys görs för att se om instabila processer går att finna även inom scenkonsten. Det som undersöks i detta fall är en teaterföreställning av 123 Schtunk. De instabila processer som beskrivs i texterna återfinns i hög grad i de analyserade verken. Processerna visar sig vara en spegling av en nomadisk och mobil diskurs som orsakas av nätverkssamhällets strävan efter att överskrida tid, rum och fasta begrepp. En omförhandling av konstbegreppet är nödvändig då samtidskonsten fundamentalt ändrar karaktär och hybridiseras i nya konstellationer och processer med många upphovsmän.
Juxtaposition, Form and Intervals of Meaning : Essayistic Montage in Lucky People Center International (1998)
(2025-07-02) Halldin, Anton; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
This thesis examines Lucky People Center International (Erik Pauser and Johan Söderberg, 1998) through the lens of the audiovisual essay, focusing particularly on montage, fragmentation and non-verbal thought. Rather than viewing the film as a conventional documentary, this study analyses it as an essayistic film, drawing on theoretical frameworks from Theodor W. Adorno, Dziga Vertov, Gilles Deleuze and Laura Rascaroli. The analysis identifies key essayistic strategies in the film's construct, such as juxtaposition, sonic interstice and visual rhythm, and explores how meaning emerges not through narrative synthesis but through disjunctive, dialectical relations between sound, image and voice. Particular attention is given to how the film handles spatiality, archival material and poetic argumentation. The argument of the thesis is that a form of cinematic thinking that privileges ambiguity, multiplicity, and fragmentation as productive conditions for audiovisual thought is exemplified by Lucky People Center International.
Kan svarta män älska vita kvinnor?
(2011-03-14) Johansson, E. Karin; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
Abstract Relationships between white women and black men have become a topic of interest in various discussion forums. By examining different arguments within certain discourses, it becomes clear that discourses that have a distinct autocrat outline, i.e. a closed and declaring nature which excludes alternative discursive arguments, also define these relationships as different and deviant in comparison to relationships that does not encompass and include the constellation white women and black men. As a result of the use of autocrat discourses the white women and black men who enter into relationships are displaced and positioned as subaltern. A position which, on the one hand, allows for uninhibited criticism, but, on the other hand, and most importantly, it is a position from where they can be defined by others. Hence, the displacement of these men and women does not only serve to differentiate, but, it is also, through this displacement their relationships transform into a relationship phenomenon. Key words: white women, black men, autocrat discourse, deviance, displacement, relationship phenomenon.
Konst Offentlighet Motstånd Om konst som motstånd i den urbana offentligheten - En fallstudie av konstprojektet (O)önskad samhällsförbättring
(2012-09-28) Jehart, Ebba; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
This thesis is a cultural theoretical case study of the art project (O)önskad samhällsförbättring. Via an analysis of the project, that is based on theories of power, resistance and contemporary urban development, it examines the construction of urban space, its impact on public art including the ability of art to initiate evolvement of the urban public space. The last decades art has plaid an important role in what is called the creative city; to become attractive nodal points of the global economy, larger cities increasingly invest in art, culture and creative industry. Simultaneously the urban public space is limited to activities and expressions of art that are presumed to create economic growth. This introduces an impression of what is allowed and what is not allowed, possible and not possible, wished and not wished which, as a consequence, evolves the public space. The events during the art project and the reactions that followed enlightened these limitations. This tells a story, not only about the structuring process of the local urban space, but also important changes that are created as a simultaneous effect at different levels in society, as well locally as globally. The study shows that the appreciation of art as urban resistance therefore also has a considerable impact of the critical art as a project forming the society. This means that the urban public space can be understood as a possibility and a limitation at the same time. An assumed driving force in the thesis is that the public space must be understood as a social effect and that a democatic urban space requires the possibility of dissolution and reformation.
KONSTEN ATT KONSUMERA - En kvalitativ studie om föreställningar, materialitet och identitet inom Every Day Carry
(2014-06-12) Johansson, Felicia; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
The purpose of this thesis is to study how today’s consumer society can be understood from an analysis of the phenomenon Every Day Carry (EDC). The aim is thus to problematize the daily use of the artifacts that surrounds us and investigate how these can be understood as networks of human and non-human actors, aswell as identity- and meaning-making practices in today’s consumer society. The theoretical and methodical framework is built upon an eclectic variety of consumptiontheories, Michel Callon’s, John Law’s and Bruno Latour’s work on Actor-Network-Theory, Discourse analysis inspired by Michel Foucault, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and an ethnographic methodology specifically adapted for online research. The empirical material consists of photographs and commentaries from two EDC blogs aswell as commentaries regarding EDC from a commentary field on Youtube.com. These are analyzed together with materials in the form of a calendar from the magazine Faktum, internet articles and relevant previous studies relating to EDC. From the material networks of human and non-human actors appears, which is shown to have an important role in how EDC is performed and how identity- and meaning-making thereby are discoursively negotiated, defined and reproduced. EDC is also shown to be a powerful subversive marketing strategy, that allows people to both consume products, meaning, identities and each other. It also shows how people, in power relations, adopt or become assigned different subject positions, which are linked to how a specific conception of gender and class identity, and how specific worldviews regarding them, are discoursively negotiated, defined and reproduced.
MED KULTUR SOM VARUMÄRKE En studie om kulturens roll som tillväxtmotor i Västra Götaland
(2012-12-14) Cavallie Wase, Pontus; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
Under min praktik inom landstinget i Västra Götaland, Västra Götalandsregionen, och kulturutföraren Kultur i Väst, så blev jag involverad i hur arbetet med kultur som tillväxtmotor kan se ut. Kultur i Väst är en av flertalet kulturutförare vars verksamhet ägs av Västra Götalandregionen. Det finns även de organisationer och föreningar som agerar på uppdrag av Västra Götalandsregionen genom samarbeten.

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