I am a professor, author and music educator based at the Faculty of Education, 
Oslo and Akershus University College (Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus). 

On these pages I have posted information and links concerning my professional work as well as some of my other interests. My work and publications are related to various subdisciplines of current musicology: music therapy, ethnomusicology, music education and the sociology of music. Underlying my profesional work is an interest in understanding the many ways in which a musical practice is made meaningfull and powerful - as an emblem of national identity, as a tool for building group solidarity, or as spontaneous improvised communication between children.

I hope you enjoy my pages. Please contact me for further information.