• The aesthetics of subversion: learning from the fringes of 'good' leadership 

      Jansson, Dag (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The notion of balance is assumed in a variety of aspects of leadership such as task/relational orientation, control/autonomy, the leader person/function, and attending to competing organisational concerns. Such issues have ...
    • Choral conducting competences: Perceptions and priorities 

      Jansson, Dag; Døving, Erik; Elstad, Beate (Research Studies in Music Education;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Choral conducting is a complex and multi-faceted leader role. Leading music is a particular kind of leadership through the prominence of gestural communication, and it is a ubiquitous phenomenon across a variety of social ...
    • Choral conducting education: The lifelong entanglement of competence, identity and meaning 

      Jansson, Dag; Balsnes, Anne Haugland (Research Studies in Music Education;First Published April 8, 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-08)
      Choral singing is one of the most widespread musical activities, and choral conductors work in a variety of social settings that involve every imaginable type of choir and musical genre. The conductor role draws on a number ...
    • Choral singers' perceptions of musical leadership 

      Jansson, Dag (Chapter, 2019)
      This chapter is about musical leadership and specifically the role of the choral conductor. The conductor role is familiar to anyone who has been singing in a school choir or have been the audience of live or televised ...
    • The construction of leadership practice: Making sense of leader competencies 

      Jansson, Dag; Døving, Erik; Elstad, Beate (Leadership;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-24)
      The notion of leadership competencies is a much-debated issue. In this article, we propose that how the leader makes sense of his or her competencies is key to leadership practice. Specifically, we look at how leaders ...
    • Dilemmaer i skandinavisk korlederutdanning 

      Jansson, Dag; Balsnes, Anne Haugland (MusPed: Research;Nr. 2 2021, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-20)
      Within higher education, programmes in choral conducting are offered of varying kinds and at different levels, from dedicated programmes to single courses that are embedded in other music programmes. The choral practice ...
    • From Artist to Manager—Working Conditions, Career Satisfaction, and Professional Identity among Graduated Arts Management Students 

      Elstad, Beate; Jansson, Dag (Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-04)
      This paper examines the careers of artists and cultural workers who completed a one-year arts management graduate program. After the program, almost half of the participants were in positions with managerial responsibility, ...
    • From Artist to Manager—Working Conditions, Career Satisfaction, and Professional Identity among Graduated Arts Management Students 

      Elstad, Beate; Jansson, Dag (The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society;Volume 50, 2020 - Issue 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-04)
      This paper examines the careers of artists and cultural workers who completed a one-year arts management graduate program. After the program, almost half of the participants were in positions with managerial responsibility, ...
    • The gesture enigma: Reconciling the prominence and insignificance of choral conductor gestures 

      Jansson, Dag; Balsnes, Anne Haugland; Durrant, Colin (Research Studies in Music Education;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-02)
      Curious as to why conducting gesture are both acknowledged and ignored by choral singers, this article investigates the enigmatic nature of the act of conducting. Education and research are biased toward gestural aspects ...
    • Inescapably Les Misérables? Understanding the sensemaking of the artistic precariat 

      Jansson, Dag; Elstad, Beate; Døving, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Performing artists seem to remain in the culture sector despite the challenges with sustaining an artistic practice. Our research question is why the occupational commitment of the artistic precariat survives an external ...
    • Korlederens kompetanse, utdanning og praksis – konturene av en meta-teori 

      Jansson, Dag; Balsnes, Anne Haugland (Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education;Vol 4, No 1 (2020), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-07)
      Korsang har en fremtredende posisjon i Skandinavia. Alle de ulike korene som finnes – fra barnekor til seniorkor, fra hygge-kor til profesjonelle kor – trenger korledere. Korlederen må mestre et omfattende kompetansesett ...
    • Precariousness during an ongoing crisis. Cultural workers and the corona pandemic. 

      Elstad, Beate; Døving, Erik; Jansson, Dag (Industrial relations journal;Volume 53, Issue 5, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This study examines precariousness among cultural workers during an ongoing crisis. A survey of Norway's largest trade union for performing artists 1 year into the pandemic shows that precariousness before the pandemic was ...
    • Re-contextualising real-life learning to a university setting 

      Jansson, Dag (Teaching in Higher Education;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-19)
      The topic of this paper is the relocation of a proven learning mechanism in a real-life working situation to a university setting. The aim is to discuss to what degree the types of learning generated in the original setting ...
    • Taming The 'Alpha-Male' In The Space Between Art And Business 

      Jansson, Dag (Organizational Aesthetics;Volume 9, Issue 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Arts-based interventions may expand how team members and leaders understand their roles and impact. For an intervention to be useful, there needs to be a way for the aesthetic experience to translate back into the regular ...
    • Turning points in shaping choral conducting practice: six tales of Norwegian conductors’ professional development 

      Jansson, Dag; Balsnes, Anne Haugland (Music Education Research;Volume 24, 2022 - Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03-22)
      Based on narratives on six choral conductors’ unfolding careers, the article investigates significant moments in professional trajectories – turning points – and how these shaped ongoing practices. The empirical material ...
    • Unfreezing identities: Exploring choral singing in the workplace 

      Jansson, Dag; Balsnes, Anne Haugland (International Journal of Community Music;8(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      The topic of this article is the emerging trend of singing at work. The discussion is based on case studies of singing interventions carried out at two different work places. Our phenomenological and hermeneutic approach ...
    • Universality and situatedness in educating choral conductors 

      Jansson, Dag; Elstad, Beate; Døving, Erik (Music Education Research;Volume 21, 2019 - Issue 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-14)
      The purpose of this study was to investigate a broad range of choral conductors’ views on competences needed in their own practice, and how education and experience have contributed to their current level of mastery. Choral ...
    • Usikkerhet i koronaens tid. En studie av kulturarbeidere med ulike tilknytningsformer til arbeidslivet 

      Elstad, Beate; Døving, Erik; Jansson, Dag (Søkelys på arbeidslivet;Årgang 37, nr. 4-2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-08)
      Kunst- og kulturfeltet ble hardt rammet av covid-19-pandemien. I en svært uoversiktlig situasjon i midten av april 2020 gjennomførte vi en undersøkelse blant medlemmene i Creo – Norges største interesseorganisasjon innen ...
    • Å falle mellom alle stoler under koronapandemien. Kulturarbeidere med multiple tilknytningsformer til arbeidslivet 

      Elstad, Beate; Døving, Erik; Jansson, Dag (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Da koronapandemien rammet Norge var det avgjørende at myndighetene kom med treffsikre kompenserende tiltak mot inntektstap. En særlig sårbar gruppe var yrkesutøvere uten fast ansettelse med flere tilknytningsformer samtidig. ...