Music therapy in prisons and places of incarceration

Music therapy and mental health

Music and identity

Cultural criminology

Musikkterapeutisk bruksmusikk MUTP102

Innføring i musikkterapeutisk praksis MUTP205

Musikkterapeutisk forskningsmetode MUTP312

 

 

Forelesning

• Hilde Kartveit Sundnes; Kjetil Hjørnevik; Judith Ologi (2021). REKOMP-partnerskap med Ask barnehagen om språk, musikk og kommunikasjon særlig og språkutvikling hos barna med et fokus på flerspråklige barn. (ekstern lenke)
• Viggo Krüger; Kjetil Klette Bøhler; Åsne Håndlykken-Luz et al. (2025). Round Table Resonating Rights-Interdisciplinary Dialogues for Music and Human Rights Education. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Kjetil Hjørnevik (2025). ‘More than a sound’: Tone as affective encounter in music therapy in prison. (ekstern lenke)
• Kjetil Hjørnevik; Leif Waage; Anita Lill Hansen (2022). Musical life stories: coherence through musicking in the prison setting. (ekstern lenke)
• Kjetil Hjørnevik; Leif Waage (2018). The prison as a therapeutic music scene: Exploring musical identities in music therapy and everyday life in a prison setting. (ekstern lenke)
• Christian Gold; Fredrik Berntsen Due; Elin Kirkhus Thieu et al. (2020). Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Music Therapy for Prison Inmates: Six-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial. (ekstern lenke)

Fremhevet artikkel i media

• Maren Metell; Viggo Krüger; Lars Tuastad et al. (2025). Musikkterapi i funksjonshemmede barn og unges oppvekst. (ekstern lenke)

Konferanseforedrag

• Kjetil Hjørnevik (2024). Exploring music therapy in a Norwegian prison through participatory arts based action research. (ekstern lenke)
• Kjetil Hjørnevik (2024). Angelic Harmony - Exploring Music Therapy with inmates in a Norwegian prison. (ekstern lenke)
• Kjetil Hjørnevik (2024). Angelic Harmony - Exploring music therapy with prison inmates in a Norwegian prison. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

• Kjetil Hjørnevik (2022). An ethnography of music therapy in a Norwegian prison: Exploring musicking, identity,and change in the carceral setting. (ekstern lenke)

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Articles (peer reviewed)

Hjørnevik, K. (in press). Wanted dead or alive: The collaborative art of performing music therapy in prison. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v26i2.4558

Hjørnevik, K. (2025). More than a sound: Tone as affective encounter in music therapy in prison. The Arts in Psychotherapy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/[add DOI if available]

Hjørnevik, K., Waage, L., & Hansen, A. L. (2023). Musical life stories: Coherence through musicking in the prison setting. Crime, Media, Culture, 19(1), 74–94.

Gold, C., Due, F. B., Thieu, E. K., Hjørnevik, K., Tuastad, L., & Assmus, J. (2020). Long-term effects of short-term music therapy for prison inmates: Six-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X20909216

Hjørnevik, K., & Waage, L. (2019). The prison as a therapeutic music scene: Exploring musical identities in music therapy and everyday life in a prison setting. Punishment & Society, 21(4), 454–472. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474518794187

Gold, C., Assmus, J., Hjørnevik, K., Qvale, L. G., Brown, F. K., Hansen, A. L., & Stige, B. (2014). Music therapy for prisoners: Pilot randomized controlled trial and implications for evaluating psychosocial interventions. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 58(12), 1520–1539.

 

Book chapters

Hjørnevik, K. (in press). From “crime scene” to “music scene”? Music therapy in a Scandinavian prison. In A. Chamberlen & R. Bernatek (Eds.), Carceral arts: Global perspectives on creativity, justice & resistance. Bristol University Press.

 

PhD thesis:

Hjørnevik, K (2021). 'An Ethnography of Music Therapy in a Norwegian Prison: Exploring Musicking, Identity and Change in the Carceral Setting'. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London. 

PhD (Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy/Goldsmiths, London)

Postgraduate Diploma in Music Therapy (Roehampton University, London)

MA Music (City University, London)