Kai Arne Hansen

Kai Arne Hansen is associate professor of music in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. He is coeditor of On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements (with Nick Braae) and Popular Musicology and Identity: Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins (with Eirik Askerøi and Freya Jarman), and he currently serves as editor-in-chief of the Norwegian Journal of Musicology. His research spans the topics of popular music and identity, gender and sexuality, contemporary media, audiovisual aesthetics, and children's musical cultures.