Carrie Danielson

Dr. Carrie Danielson (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Folklore in the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures who conducts research in the areas of children’s music and dance cultures, music and migration, Scandinavian studies, feminist care theory, intergenerational activism, community music, and applied ethnomusicology. She holds a PhD and Master of Music in Musicology (Ethnomusicology) from Florida State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Theory, History, and Composition from Brown University. Danielson’s current projects focus on music making among young Syrian and Afghan refugees in Sweden, culturally inclusive pedagogies in Swedish kulturskolor, Scandinavian-American youth cultures in the Upper Midwest, and intergenerational performance and protest in Madison, Wisconsin. Her current book project, Culture Guaranteed: Music, Migration, and Relations of Care, applies feminist care ethics to larger questions of social mobility and migration within diversity-driven, public arts education programs in Sweden. Dr. Danielson is published in the edited volumes The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music and the Norwegian volume Kulturskolen som inkluderende kraft: Perspektiver fra forskning til forandring.