Tor Dybo

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

Peer reviewing: Routledge, Cappelen Damm Academic Publishing, NFR (Norwegian Research Council), NOKUT (Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education), Canada Council for the Arts, and refereed journals: Puls – Journal for Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology, Norwegian Journal of Musicology Online, Jazz Perspectives

Editor/editorial boards

2015 – today    Editor of the homepage of Popular Music Research Unit at University of Agder, Norway  https://www.uia.no/en/centres-and-networks/popular-music-research-unit

2012 – 2019     Editorial member of Norwegian Journal of Musicology Online (NTM Online) http://journal.uia.no/index.php/NTM/index

1999 – 2004     Editorial member of the university journal Fredrikke: Organ of Research Publications, Nord University, Norway. 

1989 – 1994     Editor, editorial member and editorial council member of the university journal Dragen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

MEMBERSHIPS OF ACADEMIES, SCIENTIFIC/ARTISTIC SOCIETIES

2006                Elected member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters. 

Invited presentations to peer-reviewed, internationally established conferences and/or international advanced schools            

1.     Invited to panel discussion at Book Launch: The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender. Department of Musicology, University of Oslo (2017). 

2.     Invited lecture and panel discussion at Symposium 2014 – “Doctorateness” and the Assessment of Doctoral Works. Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2014).

3.     Invited lecture on 9th Jazzwissenschaftlicher Congress: Jazz and Jazz Research in Europe: 40 Jahre Jazzforschung in Graz. Graz, Austria (2009).

4.     Guest lectures at the Department of Music, NTNU, Trondheim (2009). 

5.     Guest lecture at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo (2006).

6.     Guest lecture for master students in ethnomusicology/musicology at the Grieg Academy – Department of Music, University of Bergen (2000).

7.     Invited paper presentation during the conference Music Grooves, Style and Aesthetics, Bergen, Norway (I999). 

8.     Invited lecture at the 5th International Congress of Jazz Research, at the Institute for Jazz Research, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG). Graz, Austria (1998).

9.     Invited lecture at the Nordic Jazz Research Conference 1996 at the Department of Musicology, University of Copenhagen (1996).

10.  Invited lecture under the symposium Jazz und Literatur, Nordisches Institut, Ernst-Moritz-Universität Greifswald, Germany (1996).

11.  Invited lecture at Scientific Theory Forum, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (1993).

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SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND RESEARCH FELLOWS

Department of Popular Music, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway:

2008 – today    Number of Research Fellows/PhD candidates: 12 (9 graduated and 3 active)

2004 – today    Master students: 30 graduated 

Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH), Oslo, Norway: 

2007 – 2009     PhD candidates: 1 graduated

Faculty of Education and International Studies, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University:

2002                Master students: 1 graduated

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2008 – today    University of Agder/Norway: PhD Program in Popular Music Performance: 1) Head of the program (2008–2020); 2) Lectures and seminar management on doctoral courses; 3) Main and secondary supervisor for a majority of the Research Fellows/PhD candidates; 4) Several lectures and conducting seminars throughout the years on the doctoral courses in Analytical Theory and Methods in Popular Music Research (10 credits), Music Technology and  Production (10 credits), Ethnomusicology and World Music Research (10 credits), and Dissertation Seminars. 

2005 – 2009     Nord University/Norway: Adjunct Professor – Theory teaching and supervision on a master’s degree in musicology.

2004 – today    University of Agder/Norway: Popular Music Master: 1) Supervisor of master's theses, 2) Seminar leadership on thesis courses, Lectures and seminars on the mandatory course Musicological Theory and Method (15 credits).

2002 – 2004     Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Music/Norway: Lecturer (substitute for Professor Kjell Oversand) on the BA Programme in Musicology in Ethnomusicology (10 credits) and Popular Music (10 credits).

1996                Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Musicology/Norway: Lecturer (substitute for Professor Ola Kai Ledang) in Jazz History (bachelor), Music Knowledge (30 credits on bachelor level) and the master courses Jan Garbarek (15 credits) and Jazz and Popular Music Research (15 credits).

1995 – 2004     Nord University/Norway: Associate Professor and Professor – Theory teaching on basic plus intermediate subjects in musicology and music education, inclusive bachelor's degree in Musicology.

1995 – 1997     Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Center for Continuing Education, ALLFORSK/Norway: Course leader and lecturer in jazz studies. 

1995                Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Musicology/Norway: Lecturer in Jazz History (basic studies) and Project Manager (short-term engagement).

1994 – 1997     Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Music Conservatory in Trondheim /Norway:Lecturer in Jazz Studies (Bachelor Thesis Supervision, Jazz History and Jazz Historical Specialization). 

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2004 – today    Professor of Musicology Faculty of Fine Arts/Department of Popular Music, University of Agder (UiA) /Norway

2021 – 2023     Adjunct Professor of Musicology (professor II) at Østfold University College, Norway. Tasks: Supervise the academic staff in music for the purpose of strengthen the individual staff member’s scientific competence. This in terms of upcoming applications for accreditation of new courses of music education at the graduate level (Master’s degree).

2007 – 2009     Temporary appointment as Supervisor PhD (part-time), Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH), Oslo, Norway. 

2005 – 2009     Adjunct Professor of Musicology (professor II) at Nord University, Campus Nesna, Norway with an emphasis on ethnomusicology, jazz and popular music research. 

2003 – 2004     Professor of Musicology (100% permanent position) at Nord University, Campus Nesna, Norway with an emphasis on ethnomusicology, jazz and popular music research. 

1997 – 2003     Research Supervisor (50%) for the academic staff Nord University, Campus Nesna, Norway. 

1995 – 2003     Associate Professor of Musicology (100% permanent position) at Nord University, Campus Nesna, Norway with an emphasis on ethnomusicology, jazz and popular music research. 

1990 – 1994     Research Fellow in Jazz Research, Faculty of Humanities/Department of Music/Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)/Trondheim/Norway. 

1.         The total number of publications during the career: 5 monographs (3 in production), 2 edited volumes, 1 Dr.art.-dissertation, 1 Cand.philol.-thesis, 12 book chapters, 24 articles in journals, 2 chapters in production for the multivolume-work The Oxford History of Jazz in Europe, 2 articles in Encyclopedia, 20 papers.  

2.         List of ten publication (scientific and/or artistic) (number of quotations): 

Dybo, T. (2019). Folk and Popular Music in the Nordic Countries. In T. Howell (ed.), The Nature of Nordic Music(pp. 139–156). Abingdon: Routledge.

Dybo, T. (2017). Doctoral Scholarship in Popular Music Performance. In H. Dunin-Woyseth & F. Nilsson (eds.), Perspectives on Research Assessment in Architecture, Music and the Arts (pp. 101–113). Abingdon: Routledge. 

Dybo, T. (2017). Fairport Convention: Gender and Voicing Strategies in a Sound Signature. In S. Hawkins (ed.), The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music & Gender (pp. 182–195). Abingdon: Routledge. 

Dybo, T. (2015). Folkrock som globalisert musikkultur lokalisert i nordområdene. In P. Fagerheim & O. Larsen (eds.), Musikk, folk og landskap (pp. 175–200). Stamsund: Orkana forlag. 

Dybo, T. & K. Oversand (2012). Musikk, politikk og globalisering. Trondheim: Akademika Forlag.

Dybo, T. (2012). Karelsk glokalisering: Värttinä og verdensmusikken. In T. Dybo & K. Oversand (eds.), Musikk, politikk og globalisering (pp. 75–96), Trondheim: Akademika Forlag. 

Dybo, T. (2012). Bretonsk glokalisering. In T. Dybo & K. Oversand (eds.), Musikk, politikk og globalisering (pp. 57–74), Trondheim: Akademika Forlag. 

Dybo, T. (2012). Britisk etnisitet og Fairport Convention. In T. Dybo & K. Oversand (eds.), Musikk, politikk og globalisering (pp. 33–55), Trondheim: Akademika Forlag. 

Dybo, T. (2011). “The Ballad of Matty Groves”: Fairport Convention and the British Folk Tradition. In L. Jonnson (ed.), Mangfold og vidsyn: En musikkvitenskapelig antologi til Ola Kai Ledang ved fylte 70 år (pp. 103–134). Trondheim: Tapir akademiske forlag.

Dybo, T. (2010). Jazz Research in Scandinavia. Jazzforschung Jazz Research 42, 111–127. 

3.         Research monographs and any translations thereof 

Dybo, T. (2022). Fairport Convention: Folk-Rock and Globalization (to be submitted to Routledge). 

Dybo, T. (2013). Representasjonsformer i jazz- og populærmusikkanalyse. Trondheim: Akademika Forlag. 

Dybo, T. (1996). Jan Garbarek: Det åpne roms estetikk. Oslo: Pax forlag.