Strengthening friendship and pursuing artist dreams by informal musical practices: Musical agency in a cross-cultural context

Authors

  • Irene Trønnes Strøm Inland Norway University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7577/information.4000

Abstract

This article builds upon an ethnographic study of how young people growing up in cross-cultural contexts perform their musical agency (Strøm, 2016). The twofold focus of the article concerns the ways in which the pop duo GunnInga perform their collective musical agency as well as how they strengthen their friendship and fulfill their artist dreams through informal musical practices. The theoretical framework of the article builds upon Stones’s (2005) strong structuration theory. The analysis is structured using Karlsen’s (2011) musical agency lens as a point of departure. In line with Liamputtong’s (2010) request to cross-cultural researchers, the analysis also applies a poem as an analytical tool. The term cross-cultural is applied to situate the pop duo in a context characterized by diversity in terms of both nationalities and options when it comes to activities, concerts, projects, workshops and so on, offered by both municipal and private cultural agents attempting to respond to this reality.

Author Biography

Irene Trønnes Strøm, Inland Norway University

Associate professor. Faculty of education, Inland Noway University

Girtar og musikkutstyr på en scene

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Published

2020-09-14

How to Cite

Strøm, I. T. (2020). Strengthening friendship and pursuing artist dreams by informal musical practices: Musical agency in a cross-cultural context. Nordic Journal of Art & Research, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.7577/information.4000

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Articles, peer reviewed

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