Person
Reader, Senior Lecturer
- Division of Intermedia Studies
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Health and Safety Representative
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail mats.arvidsonkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 40 87
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
(reader, senior lecturer)
Helgonavägen 3, LUX – Hus C, Lund
(health and safety representative)
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Room C341
My research and teaching mainly focuses on studying how meaning is produced between different types of intermedial phenomena. I am particularly interested in the intermedial music and sound culture, for example how music is mediated, but also how music is used/represented in different media.
Education and positions:
I defended my dissertation in musicology at the University of Gothenburg in 2007. I was appointed associate professor (reader) in musicology at Lund University in 2016 where I work as a senior lecturer in intermedial studies with special focus on music. I often work together with other subject areas in both teaching and research.
Completed and current research since my dissertation:
I have written articles on the subject field of intermedial studies and its relation to musicology, about interpretation of music and of music and narrativity in instrumental music. Currently, I am working on a project about the functions of music and sounds in audio narratives such as radio drama.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- A Tonally Well-Organized Society or Anarchy? Aesthetical and Social Aspects of Swedish Art Music 1945–1960
- "The Medium is the Message": The CD and Vinyl Disc in the Digital Culture (research leader)
- The Crisis of Art and Culture. Art music and Technocracy in Swedish post-war II (research leader)
- Musical Work in the Post-Digital Age. Use and Control of Music in the Swedish Late-Modern Society (research leader)
- Spoken Word, Speaking Melody, and the Case of a Mediatized Performance (research leader)
- The Act of Life Choice: Between Ian Hacking and Bernard Williams (research leader)
- The Archaeology of Time Travel
- Varifrån kommer dessa ting som bara finns i drömmar? (research leader)
My research interests are multidisciplinary in character and can be divided into four research areas:
1) Music and intellectual history. This area has resultet into two studies: My dissertation on the one hand, which dealt with the social and aesthetic aspects of Swedish art music during the Post-War II period. A study on the concept of crisis on the other hand, and its relation to Swedish art music.
2) Music and intermediality. This has resulted in one short study dealing with the composer Gustav Mahler's third symphony, particularly the relationship between words, images and music. Another study has resulted in a monograph dealing with the American composer and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau's Highway Rider (2010), with a special focus on transmediality and narrativity. At the moment I'm doing resarch about word and music relations, audio narratives and what it means to think in, about and around music.
3) The relationship between musicology as a discipline and intermedial studies as a field of research. This interest has resulted in two studies: One that deals with musicology and intermedial studies (2012) in general, another that deals with the impact of cultural studies on musicology with special focus on word and music studies.
4) General interest in cultural sciences. This interest has resulted in autoethnographic study about type 1 diabets (2016), but also a short essay book about the Swedish philosopher, novelist and poet Lars Gustafsson (2018).
Books (3)
- Arvidson, M. (2018). Jag tänker. Och jag är ändå inte alldeles säker på att jag finns till : Att spegla sig i Lars Gustafssons mikroskopiska värld - en fragmentarisk essäbok. Roos & Tegnér.
- Arvidson, M. (2016). An Imaginary Musical Road Movie : Transmedial Semiotic Structures in Brad Mehldau's Concept Album "Highway Rider". Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences, 10. Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences.
- Arvidson, M. (2007). Ett tonalt välordnat samhälle eller anarki? : estetiska och sociala aspekter på svensk konstmusik 1945-1960. Institutionen för kultur, estetik och medier. Dissertation.
Editorships (1)
Articles (4)
- Arvidson, M. (2020). The (inter)medial turn and musicology. Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning STM-SJM, 101. Svenska samfundet för musikforskning.
- Arvidson, M. (2016). Det autoimmuna jaget : om att sätta gränser. Socialmedicinsk tidskrift, 93, 280-287. Socialmedicinsk tidskrifts styrelsen/nätverk.
- Arvidson, M. (2016). Kunskap som förståelse genom artikulation : om den musikaliska tolkningens legitimitet. M&STE : elektronisk tidskrift för konferensen Musik & samhälle, 33-47. Lund University, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper..
- Arvidson, M. (2012). Music and Musicology in the Light of Intermediality and Intermedial Studies. STM-Online, 15. Svenska samfundet för musikforskning.
Book chapters (7)
- Arvidson, M. (2019). Kolon : en essä om smärta, tid och väntan. In Höög, V., Kärrholm, S. & Nilsson, G. (Eds.) Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences, Kultur X : 10-talet i kulturvetenskaplig belysning (pp. 187-202), 24. Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund University.
- Arvidson, M. (2015). Efterord : Några intermediala och lärdomshistoriska reflektioner om ord om ljud. In Mossberg, F. (Ed.) Ord om ljud : Skriftställare om ljudmiljöer och ljud (pp. 65-71), 14. Ljudmiljöcentrum vid Lunds universitet.
- Arvidson, M. (2014). The Impact of Cultural Studies on Musicology Within the Context of Word and Music Studies: Questions and Answers. In Hart, H., Heady, K., Hinz, H. & Schirrmacher, B. (Eds.) Ideology in Words and Music (pp. 17-29), Stockholmer Germanistische Forschungen 79. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis.
- Arvidson, M. (2013). Den apolliniska drömmen om en lycklig framtid. Kris i kultur och konstmusik i svensk efterkrigstid. In Arvidson, M., Hansson, K. & Geisler, U. (Eds.) Kris och kultur. Kulturvetenskapliga perspektiv på kunskap, estetik och historia (pp. 87-111). Sekel Bokförlag.
- Arvidson, M., Geisler, U. & Hansson, K. (2013). Introduktion : kulturvetenskapliga perspektiv på kris. In Arvidson, M., Hansson, K. & Geisler, U. (Eds.) Kris och kultur : kulturvetenskapliga perspektiv på kunskap, estetik och historia (pp. 9-27). Sekel Bokförlag.
- Arvidson, M. (2011). "Verbala och visuella aspekter i tredje symfonin". In Geisler, U. & Rosengren, H. (Eds.) ”MIN TID SKA KOMMA” GUSTAV MAHLER I TVÄRVETENSKAPLIG BELYSNING (pp. 91-108). Sekel Bokförlag.
- Arvidson, M. (2005). Två sidor av samma historia – sökandet efter sanningen. In Ahlstedt, E. (Ed.) Under ytan (pp. 27-31), 18. Göteborgs universitet.
Conference contributions (11)
- Arvidson, M. (2016). Naturvetenskapliga ideal i svensk elektronisk konstmusik.
- Arvidson, M. (2015). Är musik verkligen en sten? Några reflektioner över musikens epistemiska och ontologiska egenskaper.
- Arvidson, M. (2015). Word and Music Studies : Types of Word and Music Relations : A Few Case Studies. [Publication information missing].
- Arvidson, M. (2014). Transmedial Semiotic Structures in Brad Mehldau's Highway Rider. [Publication information missing].
- Arvidson, M. (2012). "Dysfunctional Disciplinary Boundaries, and the Need for a New Foundation Discipline?". In Hinz, H. (Ed.) [Host publication title missing]. Word and Music Association Forum.
- Arvidson, M. (2011). Musikverket i den postdigitala tidsåldern.
- Arvidson, M. (2010). Konstens och kulturens kris. Konstmusik och teknokrati i svensk efterkrigstid.
- Arvidson, M. (2009). Musik, ideologi och ekologi.
- Arvidson, M. (2009). Ut Pictura Musica och striden mellan konstarterna.
- Arvidson, M. (2008). Tidsandans intermedialitet: nedslag i den svenska konstmusikens idéhistoria.
- Arvidson, M. (2005). Historisk ontologi och svensk konstmusik.
Reviews (4)
- Arvidson, M. (2013). Recension av Den högre utbildningen. Ett fält av marknad och politik. Högre utbildning, 3, 75-79. Swednet.
- Arvidson, M. (2013). Recension av Ingemar Hedenius heliga rum. Sofokles. Kierkegaard. Mozart. Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, 95, 191-193. Svenska samfundet för musikforskning.
- Arvidson, M. (2011). Det postdigitala manifestet. Hur musik äger rum. Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, 93, 104-106. Svenska samfundet för musikforskning.
- Arvidson, M. (2008). Review: Changing Borders. Contemporary Positions in Intermediality. Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, 90, 107-108. Svenska samfundet för musikforskning.
Miscellaneous (1)
Other tasks and qualifications
Reader, Senior Lecturer
- Division of Intermedia Studies
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Health and Safety Representative
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail mats.arvidsonkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 40 87
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
(reader, senior lecturer)
Helgonavägen 3, LUX – Hus C, Lund
(health and safety representative)
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Room C341