Knut Aastad Bråten (born 1976) is a Norwegian magazine editor.
He is a grandson of ski jumper
Johanne Kolstad.
An ethnologist by education, he edited the
Norwegian folk music
Much has been learned about early music in Norway from physical artifacts found during archaeological digs. These include instruments such as the lur. Viking and medieval sagas also describe musical activity, as do the accounts of priests and ...
magazine ''Spelemannsbladet'' from 2007. He is an able
langeleik
The ''langeleik'', also called langleik, is a Norwegian stringed folklore musical instrument, a droned zither.
Description
The langeleik has only one melody string and up to 8 drone strings. Under the melody string there are seven frets per ...
player himself. In 2010 the magazine was discontinued but resurfaced as ''Folkemusikk''.
In 2014 he took over as editor of ''
Syn og Segn''.
References
1976 births
Living people
People from Nord-Aurdal
Norwegian folk musicians
Norwegian ethnologists
Norwegian magazine editors
Nynorsk-language writers
Norwegian LGBTQ writers
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