Performing arts between dilettantism and professionalism - overview

This website is dedicated to the activities of the interdisciplinary research project Performing arts between dilettantism and professionalism. Music, theatre and dance in the Norwegian public sphere 1770–1850. The  project – with the acronyme pArts – lasted between 2011 and 2020. The whole story of the project is told in the three menu entries under About pArts – here is a short summary:

Funding

Between 2013 and 2016, the project was funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The funding gave the project owners the possibilities of appointing a number of research fellows as well as hosting conferences with participation from international scholars (see details under Participants and Timeline).

Results

The activities of the project have resulted in various publications in many journals and books –among which are one Norwegian anthology, and two English ones published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) in 2020 and 2021 (see book covers of the Routledge anthologies in the columns to the left). The anthologies with their tables of content are also listed under the menu item Publications. The two anthologies published by Routledge in 2020 and 2021 mark the end of the project as such, and we want to thank all contributors to the conferences and the publications for their patience, their high degree of proficiency, and their efforts in realising the aims and goals of the project together with the hosts of the project.

Under the auspices of the project, several other publications has been issued, among them dissertations by project fellows, articles in journals, and chapters in books. Please see indvidual publication lists for details, using the Publications tab as entry point.

Structure and contents

The five conferences listed under the menu item Timeline represent the most obvious chronology of the project. This chronology is linked to Publications facilitating the identification of publications resulting from each of the conferences. 

On on of the sub-menues of the present page (About pArts) one will find the full project description, including also original versions of the individual projects of the project members. With one exception (the PhD project of Annabella Skagen) the projects of the PhD-scholars and the post.doc. were not personalized when the project was launched. In this account of the project, however, the eventual owners of these projects, as a result of appointments, are, of course, identified.

The primary goal of this website is to function as an archive of the project, but also to give a wider context of the perspectives and research connecting the scholars involved.