Biography

Ross Hagen is an Associate Professor of Music Studies at Utah Valley University, focusing on musicology and ethnomusicology. He has been at UVU since 2010 and received his Ph.D. and M.M. in Musicology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and his B.A. in Music at Davidson College. His courses at UVU include the European notated tradition, popular music styles, and world music.

Dr. Hagen's research interests involve underground music scenes, black metal music, medievalism, and avant-garde music. Recent publications include the edited volume "Medievalism and Metal Music Studies: Throwing Down the Gauntlet" (2019) and the monograph "Darkthrone: A Blaze in the Northern Sky" for Bloomsbury's 33 & 1/3 book series (2020). Hagen is also an Assistant Editor for the academic journal Metal Music Studies. His new book, "Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music" (coauthored with Mathias Nordvig) is forthcoming from Lexington Press in 2024.

In addition to his academic work, Dr. Hagen has been active as a performer and composer since the late 1990s, specializing in extreme metal and electronic music.

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