Ingrid Åkesson is an ethnomusicologist at The Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research in Stockholm and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Umeå, Sweden. Her primary research interests involve various aspects of vocal traditional music, music-making as activity and process, and oral/aural elements in late modernity. Her publications include Med rösten som instrument (a study of contemporary folk singers’ approaches to “tradition,” 2007), and Folklig koralsång (on Swedish traditional hymn-singing, with Margareta Jersild, 2000).