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
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2023)
Stories of Songs, Choral Activism and LGBTQ+ Rights in Europe.
Music & Minorities (M&M).
volum 2.
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Hilder, Thomas Richard;
Halstead, Jill.
(2023)
Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros: The Queer Ear and Radical Care.
The Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2022
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2022)
LGBTQ+ Choirs, Community Music, Queer Artistic Citizenship in London.
Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2021
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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).
volum 1.
Anmeldelse
2020
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2020)
Pedagogical Experiments in the Musicological Classroom.
NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2020)
Queer Choirs in Corona Crisis.
LGBTQ+ Music Study Group Blog.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
2019
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Hand in Hand Cardiff 2019.
Proud Voices.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Pride, Protest, Parade: Listening to Queer Voices.
NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Sámi Musical Performance, Media and the Politics of Globalization: The Case of Sápmi Sessions.
In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2017
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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
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Nordic Sexual Exceptionalism and Indigenous Rights: Sámi Alternative Visions of Europe at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Performing Sexual Identities: Nationalities on the Eurovision Stage.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Sámi Festivals and Indigeneity.
The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Sámi Music.
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI Genres: Europe.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
The Politics of Virtuality: Sámi Cultural Simulation through Digital Musical Media.
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Hilder, Thomas Richard;
Stobart, Henry;
Tan, Shzr Ee.
(2017)
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
University of Rochester Press. 2017. ISBN 978-1-58046-573-1.
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
2016
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2016)
Book Review: Stephen Amico: Roll over, Tchaikovsky! Russian popular music and post-Soviet homosexuality. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Ethnomusicology Forum.
Anmeldelse
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2016)
Sámi Popular Music, Indigenous Feminism, Environment: Mari Boine as Grenzgängerin.
Jahrbuch Musik und Gender.
volum 8.
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2015
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2015)
Book Reveiw: Christine Dettmann. 2012. Ein anderes Gesicht: Lokale brasilianische Musiker in Lissabon. Intercultural Music Studies, 16. Berlin: VWB—Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.
Journal of World Popular Music.
volum 2 (1).
Anmeldelse
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2015)
Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2015. ISBN 978-0-8108-8895-1.
Vitenskapelig monografi
2012
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2012)
Repatriation, Revival and Transmission: The Politics of a Sámi Musical Heritage.
Ethnomusicology Forum.
volum 21 (2).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2012)
Website Review: Soundscapes Rostock: An Ethnomusicological View of City Sound.
Yearbook for Traditional Music.
volum 44.
Anmeldelse
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2023)
Stories of Songs, Choral Activism and LGBTQ+ Rights in Europe.
Music & Minorities (M&M).
volum 2.
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
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).
volum 1.
Anmeldelse
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2020)
Pedagogical Experiments in the Musicological Classroom.
NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2020)
Queer Choirs in Corona Crisis.
LGBTQ+ Music Study Group Blog.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Hand in Hand Cardiff 2019.
Proud Voices.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Pride, Protest, Parade: Listening to Queer Voices.
NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
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.
(2016)
Book Review: Stephen Amico: Roll over, Tchaikovsky! Russian popular music and post-Soviet homosexuality. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Ethnomusicology Forum.
Anmeldelse
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2016)
Sámi Popular Music, Indigenous Feminism, Environment: Mari Boine as Grenzgängerin.
Jahrbuch Musik und Gender.
volum 8.
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2015)
Book Reveiw: Christine Dettmann. 2012. Ein anderes Gesicht: Lokale brasilianische Musiker in Lissabon. Intercultural Music Studies, 16. Berlin: VWB—Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.
Journal of World Popular Music.
volum 2 (1).
Anmeldelse
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2012)
Repatriation, Revival and Transmission: The Politics of a Sámi Musical Heritage.
Ethnomusicology Forum.
volum 21 (2).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2012)
Website Review: Soundscapes Rostock: An Ethnomusicological View of City Sound.
Yearbook for Traditional Music.
volum 44.
Anmeldelse
Bøker
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Hilder, Thomas Richard;
Stobart, Henry;
Tan, Shzr Ee.
(2017)
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
University of Rochester Press. 2017. ISBN 978-1-58046-573-1.
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2015)
Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2015. ISBN 978-0-8108-8895-1.
Vitenskapelig monografi
Del av bok/rapport
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Hilder, Thomas Richard;
Halstead, Jill.
(2023)
Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros: The Queer Ear and Radical Care.
The Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2022)
LGBTQ+ Choirs, Community Music, Queer Artistic Citizenship in London.
Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Sámi Musical Performance, Media and the Politics of Globalization: The Case of Sápmi Sessions.
In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Nordic Sexual Exceptionalism and Indigenous Rights: Sámi Alternative Visions of Europe at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Performing Sexual Identities: Nationalities on the Eurovision Stage.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Sámi Festivals and Indigeneity.
The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Sámi Music.
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI Genres: Europe.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
The Politics of Virtuality: Sámi Cultural Simulation through Digital Musical Media.
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Undervisning
Emner
- MUSV2032 - Bacheloroppgave i musikkvitenskap
- MUSV3132 - Musikk og sosial rettferdighet: Kunstnerisk aktivisme og anvendt forskning i det tjueførste århundre
- MUSV3006 - Masteroppgave i musikkvitenskap
- MUSV3127 - Etnomusikologiske perspektiver på Europa
- MUSV3600 - Selvstudium - erstatningsemne for Eksperter i team
- MUSV2004 - Nordisk musikk: Fra nasjonalromantikk til samisk rapp
- MUSV3004 - Musikkstudier: disipliner, tilnærminger og perspektiver
- MUSV3125 - Globale perspektiver på musikk, kjønn og seksualitet
Formidling
2022
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Vitenskapelig foredragHilder, Thomas Richard. (2022) Autoethnographic tales of LGBTQ+ choral performance in Warsaw, London and Rome. Social Acoustics . University of Bergen; 2022-08-19.
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragHilder, Thomas Richard. (2022) Collaboration, Community, Care: LGBTQ+ Choirs, Social Inclusion, 21st Century Europe. AKKS Landsmøtet . AKKS; Trondheim. 2022-06-29.
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Vitenskapelig foredragHilder, 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.
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Vitenskapelig foredragHilder, Thomas Richard; Snorre, Sletten; Czerniak, Misza; Chew, Hsien; Kitchens, Mary Ellen; Patch, Holly; Strappaghetti, Riccardo. (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.
2021
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Vitenskapelig foredragHilder, 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.
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Vitenskapelig foredragHilder, 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.
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Vitenskapelig foredragHilder, 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.
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Vitenskapelig foredragHilder, Thomas Richard. (2021) LGBTQ+ Choirs and Queer European Citizenship. Queery: Queery/ing Popular Culture . Queery; 2021-06-10 - 2021-06-10.
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Vitenskapelig foredragHilder, Thomas Richard. (2021) LGBTQ+ Choirs and Queer European Citizenship. Musicological Colloquium ; The University of Göttingen. 2021-05-12 - 2021-05-12.
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Vitenskapelig foredragHilder, Thomas Richard. (2021) “Transgressive Pedagogies in the Musicological Classroom”. IASPM-Norden Research Seminar Series . IASPM; Digital. 2021-03-25 - 2021-03-25.
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragHilder, 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.
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragHilder, 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.
2020
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragEidsheim, Nina; Paine, Garth; Musiol, Hanna; Hilder, Thomas Richard; Rasika, Ajotikar; Bergsland, Andreas. (2020) Modalities of Listening, NTNU ARTEC Seminar Series Seminar. NTNU ARTEC Seminar Series . NTNU ARTEC; NTNU. 2020-09-21 - 2020-09-21.
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Vitenskapelig foredragHilder, Thomas Richard. (2020) Choral Activism and Queer European Citizenship. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference ; 2020-10-21 - 2020-10-31.
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragSchulman, Sarah; Raha, Nat; Hellesund, Tone; Branlat, Jennifer; Garcia Zarranz, Libe; Hilder, Thomas Richard; Musiol, Hanna. (2020) Pandemics, Archives, Justice: A Webinar with Sarah Schulman. Literature and Cultural History Research Group Seminar . NTNU ISL, TransLit & ILU, Gender Hub, LGBTQ+ Study Music Gr.; NTNU. 2020-11-11 - 2020-11-11.