Thomas Richard Hilder

Om

I am a writer, teacher, researcher, musician, activist, and associate professor in ethnomusicology at NTNU. My experiments in scholarship, pedagogy, and community engagement explore the powerful connections between musical performance and a range of interdisciplinary issues, including justice, community, well-being, digitality, spirituality, advocacy, and care. I obtained my PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2011, and have held postdoctoral posts at the Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim (2011-2014) and at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen (2015-2017). In the autumn semester of 2022 I was guest professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt. With careful guidance from feminist, queer, postcolonial, and Indigenous perspectives, my work emerges from a pressing desire to question the present and to demand alternative futures.

I am currently researching LGBTQ+ choirs in London, Rome, and Warsaw, attending to the transformation of queer European belonging and transnational activism in a post-Stonewall era. My monograph ‘Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe’ (2015) focused on the role of Sámi popular music in shaping the politics of sovereignty, time, place, cultural heritage, and transnationalism. I was lead editor of the book ‘Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media’ (2017) which drew together the work of leading international scholars of Indigenous music. In addition, I have published articles, book chapters, and blogposts on Indigenous feminism, music therapy, festivals, queer storytelling, television music documentaries, transgressive pedagogies, Eurovision, and the politics of cultural repatriation in prestigious journals and with international presses.

I am co-founder and chair of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group which promotes academic inquiry into issues of gender and sexuality, and creates a support system for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Currently, I serve on the editorial board of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (JRMA) and in 2015 I was programme committee member for the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Conference. Academic events I have co-organised and co-convened include the Grieg Research School (Trondheim, 2018), the Berlin ethnomusicology research group BEAM (2012-15), and the International Doctoral Workshop in Ethnomusicology at the Center for World Music (2012-14). I am often invited to speak at academic and public events, including as a keynote speaker at the 2021 BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference at the University of Cambridge. In 2021 I held the annual keynote lecture of the Music & Minorities Research Center, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

In Trondheim, I have been nurturing engaged pedagogical practice, pursuing forms of social and artistic community engagement, and developing ideas to transform institutional structures and ethics. I teach BA and MA courses on ethnomusicology; music, gender and sexuality; music in Europe; music and social justice. I currently co-supervise four PhD candidates (at NTNU, UiO, and UiT) and several MA and BA students with projects on a range of topics especially those employing ethnographic method and focusing on issues of gender, sexuality, cultural revitalisation, digitality, and pedagogy. At the Department of Music, I am leader of a working group which promotes forms of inclusion, equality, and diversity (RILM). Since 2022 I have taken over as co-leader of NTNU LGBTQ+ Staff Network. In addition, I helped build our local queer choir, Kor Hen, and currently act as board member. This year I was awarded the NTNU prize for equality and diversity.

Publikasjoner

2023

Hilder, Thomas Richard; Halstead, Jill . (2023) Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros: The Queer Ear and Radical Care. Oxford University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2023) Stories of Songs, Choral Activism and LGBTQ+ Rights in Europe. Music & Minorities (M&M)
Vitenskapelig artikkel

2022

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2022) LGBTQ+ Choirs, Community Music, Queer Artistic Citizenship in London. Springer Nature
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard; Bandlien, Bjørn-Terje; Utstøl, Kristine. (2022) Musikkfaget i grunnskolen, et lite men stort fag. NTNU
Mastergradsoppgave

2021

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2021) Book Review: Gregory Barz and William Cheng, eds. Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Music & Minorities (M&M)
Anmeldelse

2020

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2020) Queer Choirs in Corona Crisis. LGBTQ+ Music Study Group Blog
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2020) Pedagogical Experiments in the Musicological Classroom. NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel

2019

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2019) Pride, Protest, Parade: Listening to Queer Voices. NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2019) Hand in Hand Cardiff 2019. Proud Voices
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2019) Sámi Musical Performance, Media and the Politics of Globalization: The Case of Sápmi Sessions. Liverpool University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

2017

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) Sámi Festivals and Indigeneity. Oxford University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard; Stobart, Henry; Tan, Shzr Ee. (2017) Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media. University of Rochester Press University of Rochester Press
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) The Politics of Virtuality: Sámi Cultural Simulation through Digital Musical Media. University of Rochester Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media. University of Rochester Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) Nordic Sexual Exceptionalism and Indigenous Rights: Sámi Alternative Visions of Europe at the Eurovision Song Contest. Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) Event Review: «Music – Gender – Activism: Transcultural Conversations». The 9th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Gender. Musikk og tradisjon
Anmeldelse
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) Sámi Music. Bloomsbury Academic
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

Bøker

Hilder, Thomas Richard; Stobart, Henry; Tan, Shzr Ee. (2017) Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media. University of Rochester Press University of Rochester Press
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2015) Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Vitenskapelig monografi

Del av bok/rapport

Hilder, Thomas Richard; Halstead, Jill . (2023) Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros: The Queer Ear and Radical Care. Oxford University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2022) LGBTQ+ Choirs, Community Music, Queer Artistic Citizenship in London. Springer Nature
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2019) Sámi Musical Performance, Media and the Politics of Globalization: The Case of Sápmi Sessions. Liverpool University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) Sámi Festivals and Indigeneity. Oxford University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) The Politics of Virtuality: Sámi Cultural Simulation through Digital Musical Media. University of Rochester Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media. University of Rochester Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) Nordic Sexual Exceptionalism and Indigenous Rights: Sámi Alternative Visions of Europe at the Eurovision Song Contest. Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2017) Sámi Music. Bloomsbury Academic
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

Rapport

Hilder, Thomas Richard; Bandlien, Bjørn-Terje; Utstøl, Kristine. (2022) Musikkfaget i grunnskolen, et lite men stort fag. NTNU
Mastergradsoppgave

Undervisning

Emner

Formidling

2022

Vitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard; Snorre, Sletten; Czerniak, Misza; Chew, Hsien; Kitchens, Mary Ellen; Patch, Holly. (2022) LGBTQ+ Choirs, Care, and Activism since the COVID Pandemic . “Queer, Care, Futures”: 4th Symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group , University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna 2022-04-22 - 2022-04-24
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2022) Autoethnographic tales of LGBTQ+ choral performance in Warsaw, London and Rome . University of Bergen Social Acoustics 2022-08-19 -
Populærvitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2022) Collaboration, Community, Care: LGBTQ+ Choirs, Social Inclusion, 21st Century Europe . AKKS AKKS Landsmøtet , Trondheim 2022-06-29 -
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard; Patch, Holly. (2022) From Musical Asylum to Queer Choral Mobilization. Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights , Bielefeld University 2022-03-05 - 2022-03-12

2021

Vitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2021) Keynote Lecture: “Imagining Music Scholarship as Radical Care: Stories of research, pedagogy, and activism” . GRS International Summer School 2021 , University of Agder 2021-06-07 - 2021-06-09
Populærvitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard; Sletten, Snorre; Fayant, Amanda Nicole; Nesset, Julie; Thobro, Mette. (2021) Community music making: Mangfold- og inkluderingsarbeid i musikalsk tiltak i Trondheim og Norge. Feminalen , Trondheim 2021-11-13 - 2021-11-13
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2021) Keynote Lecture: "Choral Activism, LGBTQ+ Rights, Queering Identity in 21st Century Europe". Music & Minorities Research Centre Annual Lecture , University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna 2021-11-11 - 2021-11-11
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2021) “Transgressive Pedagogies in the Musicological Classroom”. IASPM IASPM-Norden Research Seminar Series , Digital 2021-03-25 - 2021-03-25
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2021) LGBTQ+ Choirs and Queer European Citizenship. Queery Queery: Queery/ing Popular Culture 2021-06-10 - 2021-06-10
Populærvitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard; Murray, Tai; Anna, Floren; Eidsvåg, Einar Idsøe. (2021) How to Increase Diversity in Classical Music?. Bergen International Festival 2021-05-28 - 2021-05-28
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2021) LGBTQ+ Choirs and Queer European Citizenship. Musicological Colloquium , The University of Göttingen 2021-05-12 - 2021-05-12
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2021) Keynote Lecture: "Imagining Music Scholarship as Radical Care: Stories of Research, Pedagogy, and Activism" . BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference , University of Cambridge 2021-01-12 - 2021-01-14

2020

Populærvitenskapelig foredrag

Eidsheim, Nina; Paine, Garth; Musiol, Hanna; Hilder, Thomas Richard; Rasika, Ajotikar; Bergsland, Andreas. (2020) Modalities of Listening, NTNU ARTEC Seminar Series Seminar. NTNU ARTEC NTNU ARTEC Seminar Series , NTNU 2020-09-21 - 2020-09-21
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2020) Choral Activism and Queer European Citizenship. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2020-10-21 - 2020-10-31
Populærvitenskapelig foredrag

Schulman, Sarah; Raha, Nat; Hellesund, Tone; Branlat, Jennifer; Garcia Zarranz, Libe; Hilder, Thomas Richard. (2020) Pandemics, Archives, Justice: A Webinar with Sarah Schulman. NTNU ISL, TransLit & ILU, Gender Hub, LGBTQ+ Study Music Gr. Literature and Cultural History Research Group Seminar , NTNU 2020-11-11 - 2020-11-11

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