Out now: Taking the Temperature: Crisis, Curating, and Musical Diversity

Taking the Temperature: Crisis, Curating, and Musical Diversity
Edited by Brandon Farnsworth, Anna Jakobsson, Vanessa Massera

The Ultima Festival Oslo is pleased to announce the publication Taking the Temperature: Crisis, Curating, and Musical Diversity. The publication was originally intended as a conference during this year’s festival launching a year-long series of exchanges and discussions around issues of diversity in contemporary music. As of March, not only did it become clear that such an international event could not take place, but also that many of our presumptions that underpinned not just this project, but also the survival of our entire performing arts community, were now open questions without answers.

This caesura in musical production has made contemporary music’s crisis of societal relevancy more apparent than ever. Bringing together interviews with music curators, musicians, activist networks, and institutional leaders, this book details existing practices and approaches showing that change is possible, but only if the recent wave of interest in curatorial practices, diversity, and divestment from a white, European bourgeois aesthetic are taken seriously by the musical establishment. The focus of this book radiates out from the Ultima Festival in Oslo, Norway, tracing connections to related contemporary musical practices in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Canada.

Featuring interviews with:
Fredrik Andersson, Anna Berit Asp Christensen, Sandeep Bhagwati, Myriam Boucher, Dena Davida, Gabriel Dharmoo, Marta Forsberg, Siri Haugan Holden, Pauline Hogstrand, Kasper Holten, Merja Hottinen, Adele Kosman, Astrid Kvalbein, Marcela Lucatelli, Anne Margvardsen, Peter Meanwell, Ung Nordisk Musik, Anne Hilde Nesset, Tanja Orning, Tine Rude, Thorbjørn Tønder Hansen, Jennifer Torrence, Helena Wessman, Anna Xambó

Taking the Temperature: Crisis, Curating, and Musical Diversity
22 x 28 cm (US Letter)
187 pages
Text in English
ISBN: 979-8-66990-500-2
Cover and book design by Asia Pietrzyk

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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The book is now available as a physical copy for purchase or open-access PDF at OnCurating.org.