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Can concerts connect us? Dr. Dana Swarbrick has investigated this in her research. On Wednesday February 7th she will be at Popsenteret in the first of a series of relaxed conversations about music, people, society, and research. Through a combined concert with her band Dana & The Monsters, a lecture and Q&A session, Dana will present and demonstrate her research to explain how concerts are arenas for social bonding.
The conversation is led by facilitator and “MC” Kjell Andreas Oddekalv – Postdoc at RITMO and the Institute of Musicology. The conversation will take place in English, but questions can be asked in Norwegian, as Dana understands and speaks Norwegian.
Watch the livestream here
Listen to Dana & The Monsters
Learn a bit about Dana's research
General description of LAB.prat:
LAB.prat is a partnership between Popsenteret and RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion – a series of relaxed conversations with smart researchers about narrow, deep, and maybe even weird topics on music – for those who are curious about and hungry for a mix of knowledge and fun.
Bio
Dr. Dana Swarbrick is a singer-songwriter-scientist from Canada who conducted her PhD at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion. Inspired from her own experiences as an audience member and performer in her band Dana & The Monsters, she was fascinated with the concert experience and how to promote social connectedness among and between audiences and performers. She has approached this topic from the fields of embodied music cognition and social psychology and she has mainly focussed on the role of liveness in audience's social and emotional experiences. For the concert, Dana will be joined by friends Eirik Jacobsen on guitar, Aleksander Tidemann on drums, and Ole Kristian Bekkevold on bass.