Thomas Richard Hilder
About
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.
Publications
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.
Academic article
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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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2022
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2022)
LGBTQ+ Choirs, Community Music, Queer Artistic Citizenship in London.
Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Book review
2020
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2020)
Pedagogical Experiments in the Musicological Classroom.
NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg.
Popular scientific article
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2020)
Queer Choirs in Corona Crisis.
LGBTQ+ Music Study Group Blog.
Popular scientific article
2019
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Hand in Hand Cardiff 2019.
Proud Voices.
Popular scientific article
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Pride, Protest, Parade: Listening to Queer Voices.
NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg.
Popular scientific article
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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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Book review
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Sámi Festivals and Indigeneity.
The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Sámi Music.
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI Genres: Europe.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
The Politics of Virtuality: Sámi Cultural Simulation through Digital Musical Media.
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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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.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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.
Book review
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2016)
Sámi Popular Music, Indigenous Feminism, Environment: Mari Boine as Grenzgängerin.
Jahrbuch Musik und Gender.
volum 8.
Academic article
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).
Book review
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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.
Academic monograph
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).
Academic article
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2012)
Website Review: Soundscapes Rostock: An Ethnomusicological View of City Sound.
Yearbook for Traditional Music.
volum 44.
Book review
Journal publications
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Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2023)
Stories of Songs, Choral Activism and LGBTQ+ Rights in Europe.
Music & Minorities (M&M).
volum 2.
Academic article
-
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.
Book review
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2020)
Pedagogical Experiments in the Musicological Classroom.
NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg.
Popular scientific article
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2020)
Queer Choirs in Corona Crisis.
LGBTQ+ Music Study Group Blog.
Popular scientific article
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Hand in Hand Cardiff 2019.
Proud Voices.
Popular scientific article
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Pride, Protest, Parade: Listening to Queer Voices.
NTNU Samfunn, språk og kultur blogg.
Popular scientific article
-
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.
Book review
-
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.
Book review
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2016)
Sámi Popular Music, Indigenous Feminism, Environment: Mari Boine as Grenzgängerin.
Jahrbuch Musik und Gender.
volum 8.
Academic article
-
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).
Book review
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2012)
Repatriation, Revival and Transmission: The Politics of a Sámi Musical Heritage.
Ethnomusicology Forum.
volum 21 (2).
Academic article
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2012)
Website Review: Soundscapes Rostock: An Ethnomusicological View of City Sound.
Yearbook for Traditional Music.
volum 44.
Book review
Books
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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.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
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.
Academic monograph
Part of book/report
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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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2022)
LGBTQ+ Choirs, Community Music, Queer Artistic Citizenship in London.
Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2019)
Sámi Musical Performance, Media and the Politics of Globalization: The Case of Sápmi Sessions.
In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Sámi Festivals and Indigeneity.
The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
Sámi Music.
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI Genres: Europe.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hilder, Thomas Richard.
(2017)
The Politics of Virtuality: Sámi Cultural Simulation through Digital Musical Media.
Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Teaching
Courses
- MUSV2032 - Bachelor Thesis in Musicology
- MUSV3132 - Music and Social Justice: Artistic Activism and Applied Research in the Twenty-First Century
- MUSV3127 - Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Europe
- MUSV2004 - Nordic Music: From National Romanticism to Sámi Rap
- MUSV3006 - Master's Thesis in Musicology
- MUSV3600 - Self Study - Compensatory Course for Experts in Teamwork
- MUSV3125 - Global Perspectives on Music, Gender and Sexuality
- MUSV3004 - Music Studies: Disciplines, Approaches, and Perspectives
Media
2022
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Academic lectureHilder, 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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Popular scientific lectureHilder, Thomas Richard. (2022) Collaboration, Community, Care: LGBTQ+ Choirs, Social Inclusion, 21st Century Europe. AKKS Landsmøtet . AKKS; Trondheim. 2022-06-29.
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Academic lectureHilder, 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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Academic lectureHilder, 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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Academic lectureHilder, 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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Academic lectureHilder, 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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Academic lectureHilder, 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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Academic lectureHilder, 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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Academic lectureHilder, 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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Academic lectureHilder, 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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Popular scientific lectureHilder, 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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Popular scientific lectureHilder, 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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Popular scientific lectureEidsheim, 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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Academic lectureHilder, Thomas Richard. (2020) Choral Activism and Queer European Citizenship. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference ; 2020-10-21 - 2020-10-31.
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Popular scientific lectureSchulman, 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.