Introduction. On ethnomusicology and a theory of shifts

Owe Ronström is professor emeritus in Ethnology at Uppsala University, Campus Gotland and associate professor in Musicology at Åbo Akademi, Finland. He received his doctorate in 1992 with the thesis Att gestalta ett ursprung. En musiketnologisk undersökning av dansande och musicerande bland jugoslaver i Stockholm [Giving form to an origin. Dancing and playing music among Yugoslavs in Stockholm]. Ronström has published a large number of works on music, dance, ethnicity, multiculturalism, ageing, heritage politics, rituals and islands. He has produced many hundreds of programs for Sweden's Radio P2 and is also active as a musician. For his research, he has been awarded the Hilding Rosenberg Prize and the Gösta Berg Prize. For the work "Klockrent - A Very Large Concert" he received the Prix Italia 2013. He is a member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala and International Folklore Fellow of the American Folklore Society.