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Håvard Haugland Bamle

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Email
havard.haugland.bamle@uia.no
Phone
+47 38 14 21 17
Mobile phone
+47 99 44 23 49

Background and experience

My academic background is in literary studies, religion, philosophy and popular music studies. My PhD is an independently conducted project funded by the University of Agder. I am affiliated among others with the Research Group for Song Lyrics (https://www.uia.no/forskning/humaniora-og-pedagogikk/sanglyrikk), Song Studies Network (https://www.songstudies.org/) and Norwegian Research School for Environmental Humanities (https://www.uis.no/en/research/the-norwegian-researcher-school-in-environmental-humanities-nors-eh). 

Areas of responsibility

I am a PhD Research Fellow at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation at the University of Agder (UiA). I started my PhD at UiA in 2021. 

 

Teaching

English Literature, Culture and Didactics

Research

My PhD project entitled Climate Song Lyrics is a cross-disciplinary study of contemporary popular songs dealing with climate change. In this project I aim to study a wide range of songs with explicit and implicit reference to the theme of global warming, including both protest songs and mainstream popular music. I want to find out what characterizes these songs generally and in the specific contexts of different musical genres. I also ask what is the role of song lyrics in environmental activism. 

Publications

  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2026). The Effect of Genre on Environmental Popular Song Lyrics. IASPM Journal. 16(1), p. 7–25. doi: 10.5429/2079-3871(2026)v16i1.2en. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2025). “I Wanna See It Boil”: Satire as Eco-Political Performance in Talking Heads’s “(Nothing But) Flowers” (1988) and Anohni’s “4 Degrees” (2015). Arts. 14(4). doi: 10.3390/arts14040096. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2024). Anti-Pastoral and the Prophetic Mode in Moddi’s Climate Songs. Ecozona. 15(2), p. 218–235. doi: 10.37536/ECOZONA.2024.15.2.5177. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2023). The Force of Environmental Lyrics in Pop Songs: The Case of Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach. Popular music and society. ISSN 0300-7766. doi: 10.1080/03007766.2023.2297351. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2022). Indie-Folk Music and the Quest for Personal Authenticity. In Karlsen, Ole & Markussen, Bjarne (Ed.), Sanglyrikk. Teori - Metode - Sjangrer. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISSN 9788230403426. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2022). Indie-Folk Music and the Quest for First-Person Authenticity (Themes of Identity in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning). In Will, Leo; Stadler, Wolfgang & Eloff, Irma (Ed.), Authenticity across Languages and Cultures: Themes of Identity in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. Multilingual Matters. ISSN 9781800411036. p. 214–229. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland; Nedrebø, Ingrid & Valle, Marthe (2026). Kor mykje kan ein artist meine? (Ukeslutt). [Radio]. NRK P1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2026). Klima-sangene har endra seg - Kompass - NRK Radio. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2026). Sørlandssendinga - Distriktssending: Har forsket på klimasanger. [Radio]. NRK Sørlandet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2026). Hvorfor synger ikke dagens popartister om hvordan vi kan redde miljøet? [Journal]. Forskning.no. doi: https:/www.uia.no/forskning/forskningsnyheter/hum-ped/har-klimasangene-mistet-kampviljen.html. Full text in Research Archive
  • Vatne, Helle Marie & Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2026). Litteraturens Mønstre: Klimasanglyrikk med Håvard Haugland Bamle. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2025). Gjendiktning eller polemisk omskriving? Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland; Holm, Askil Lænd & Marcussen, Johanna Bjånes (2025). Klimanach: Minikonsert med Marte Wulff og samtale om musikkens rolle i klimakampen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2025). Pop om planeten. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2025). Fictionality as truth configuration in political song lyrics. Full text in Research Archive
  • Kvassheim, Anne Marie; Hella, Asle & Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2025). Popmusikk for klima (Opptur). [Journal]. NRK, P1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2024). Forest Floor Walking (Reimagining Time and Place in the Anthropocene). Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2024). The Rhetorics of Genre in Environmental Song Lyrics. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dæhlen, Marte; Aas, Vilde Aardahl; Bamle, Håvard Haugland & Kolltveit, Gjermund (2024). Sanger om klima blir ikke veldig populære. Hvorfor ikke? [Journal]. Forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2023). Klimasanglyrikk (Forsker Grand Prix). Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2022). Environmentalism and Indigenous Rights in Norwegian Protest Songs. doi: https:/oursubversivevoice.com/voice/environmentalism-and-indigenous-rights-in-norwegian-protest-songs/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2022). KLIMAKAMPENS SOUNDTRACK: SANG, MUSIKK OG MILJØPOLITIKK. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2019). Hvordan starte med filosofi? - Et undervisningsopplegg for VGS. Religion og livssyn : Tidsskrift for religionslærerforeningen i Norge. ISSN 0802-8214. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2026). “… and I never really knew what to do”. Environmental Song Lyrics in a Time of Ecological Crisis. Universitetet i Agder. ISSN 9788284273228. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamle, Håvard Haugland (2018). Ethics of Infinite Improbability and the Logic of Jokes : A look at the philosophical inquiry in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker-series (Masteroppgave). Universitetet i Agder. Full text in Research Archive

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