Faculty Member, Musicology
Professor of Musicology
Department of Musicology
About
British musicologist and composer employed at University of Oslo, Norway, since 1995. Also holds an adjunct professorship (20% position) at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.
Following on from his BMus, and MA (in South Africa and Germany, respectively), he went on to take a PhD at York University, UK (1983-1987). Took up an appointment at Salford University, Manchester, in 1988, where he developed the first BA in Popular Music & Recording in the UK (with Jonty Stockdale). In 1992 founded the Popular Music Research Unit at Salford, and together with Derek Scott, Sheila Whiteley and Jonty Stockdale, started the Popular Musicology Quarterly (which became Popular Musicology Online) - see http://www.popular-musicology-online.com/. From 1991-1994 he was Chair of the UK Branch of IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music). In 1995 accepted a post offer at the University of Oslo and moved to Norway. Major publications include, "Settling the Pop Score" (2002), "Music, Space & Place" (2004), "Essays on Sound & Vision" (2007),"The British Pop Dandy" (2009), and "Pop Music & Easy Listening (2011) - see http://uio.academia.edu/StanHawkins/Books. Hawkins has co-authored a book on Prince with Sarah Niblock, which was published in late 2011.See http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=4
He is currently supervising numerous PhD and Master degree students. For further details check homepage link below.
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