Áine Mangaoang is Associate Professor in Popular Music at the University of Oslo, who works at the intersections of music, cultural citizenship, and identity. She received her PhD in Music from the University of Liverpool, and before joining the University of Oslo, Áine has held academic posts at Listaháskóli Islands (Iceland University of the Arts), the Institute of Popular Music, Dublin City University, and University College Cork.
Áine's first monograph Dangerous Mediations: Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video asks broader questions about the use of music as a form of discipline in the digital era, and received the 2021 International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch (IASPM-US) Woody Guthrie Prize for most outstanding book on popular music. Her second book, Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (with John O'Flynn & Lonán Ó Briain) is the first comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Irish popular music. She is currently working on her third book Sound and Detention: Towards critical listening, sonic citizenship, and social justice together with Lucy Cathcart Frödén and Kate Herrity. Other forthcoming work includes writing on interpreting music and multimodality for Deaf audiences through Irish Sign Language.
She is currently Principal Investigator for the three-year project Prisons of Note: Mapping music and nuances in penal exceptionalism from the periphery funded by the Norwegian Research Council's Young Researcher Talent Award (2021-2025). Drawing from fieldwork in Norway, Iceland and the Republic of Ireland, the project examines the ways music is used – and is useful – in prison.
Teaching & Supervision
Áine has served as course convenor for MUS2531 / MUS4531 Music and Media, and MUS4501 Aktuell musikkvitenskap "Popular Music & Dust: Archives, Memory, Heritage, Historiography" -- a collaborative course taught in partnership with the popular music archive in Nasjonabiblioteket (the National Library of Norway). She teaches the following courses: MUS2605 - Populærmusikkstudier (Popular Music Studies), MUS2445 - Musikkens historie (Music history), MUS4661: Nordic Music Histories, Genres, and Identities, and MUS4311 Music & Cultural Studies.
Áine has supervised Master's dissertations on ethnomusicology, popular music and media, music and (dis)ability, and music heritage topics, and is an actively mentor for graduate researchers working in various popular music and musicology areas. She has served as supervisor and external examiner for graduate student theses on audiovisual media, app albums, popular music and politics, music and digital cultures, among other topics. Any prospective Master or PhD students interested in researching any of these or related areas are most welcome to be in touch to discuss their research ideas.