Jameson Foster

Jameson Foster is an ethnomusicology PhD student at CU Boulder, with a Master's in Musicology from Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. Jameson's current research focuses on contemporary uses and conceptions of the Viking age, the 21st century pagan revival, Nordic folk music, and the countercultural uses of fantasy in heavy metal. 

His current dissertation project is an ethnographic study of the Viking music phenomenon resulting from the immense popularity of Vikings in media from the 2010s, which continues to reshape and disrupt the ways in which the Viking age is understood around the world. In the Spring of 2026, Jameson will be traveling throughout Scandinavia on a mobility grant from the Norwegian Minister of Culture, conducting fieldwork on the music traditions of Viking reenactments.