Name: Book launch: Sound and Detention
Start: 2026-01-19T12:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-19T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Scene HumSam

Welcome to the launch of the groundbreaking interdisciplinary book "Sound and Detention: Towards Critical Listening, Sonic Citizenship and Social Justice". The book explores soundscapes in places and systems of imprisonment in order to better understand experiences of imprisonment, and to imagine alternatives to the carceral state. Bringing together over 40 contributors from five continents, "Sound and Detention: Towards Critical Listening, Sonic Citizenship and Social Justice" tunes in to some of the manifold effects associated with the presence and absence of sound and music in prisons and places of detention: from isolation, harm and control, to connection, healing and resistance.
This launch event will feature input from experts in criminology, musicology, sound studies and community development, as well as an opportunity to tune in to some of the audio material that accompanies this innovative volume.
The event is free, lunch will be served and all are welcome! Lunch served from 12.15, the event starts at 12.30.
Programme:
- Welcome w/Anja Nylund Hagen, Head of Musicology Department, University of Oslo.
- Introduction by co-editors Lucy Cathcart Frödén, Kate Herrity and Áine Mangaoang.
- Short film screening: Pros and Cons; a short film about a prison choir in Dublin who are featured in the book.
- Book panel with Kate Herrity, Caroline Jones, Áine Mangaoang and Sveinung Sandberg, moderated by Lucy Cathcart Frödén. Q&A.
- Reflection from local organization "Music in Custody and Liberty" w/Audun Reithaug.
- Short film screening: Real Life; a short film about a band of women in Oslo who met in Bredtveit Prison and who continue to play music together after release.