Description

Popular music plays a significant role in the evolving global dynamics of the Nordic countries and the fascination with the region’s natural environments. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries offers a series of exemplary studies of music in these transnational dynamics by the world’s foremost experts in the field.

CONTENTS

Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Music in a Globalizing Region
Fabian Holt
PART ONE
Geography
1 Musical Borealism: Nordic Music and European History
Philip V. Bohlman
2 Nordic Modernity and the Structure of the Musical Landscape
Fabian Holt
3 Inclusive Popular Music Education?
Alexis A. Kallio and Lauri Vakeva
4 Roots, Routes, and Cosmopolitanism: David Lindley Meets Harding Hank
Hans Weisethaunet
5 From the Faroes to the World Stage
Joshua Green
6 Christian Metal and the Translocal North
Henna Jousmaki
7 Music and Landscape in Iceland
Tony Mitchell
8 Music and Environmentalism in Iceland
Nicola Dibben
PART TWO
History
9 A Metahistorical Enquiry into Nordic Popular Music Historiography
Antti-Ville Karja
10 Echoes of the Colonial Past in Discourse on North Atlantic Popular Music
Kimberly Cannady
11 Swedish Prog Rock and the Search for a Timeless Utopia
Sverker Hylten-Cavallius and Lars Kaijser
12 Trajectories of Karelian Music After the Cold War
Pekka Suutari
13 The Memorial Ceremony after the 2011 Utoya Massacre
Jan Sverre Knudsen
14 Aspirations and Global Futures: Lessons from Sami Popular Music for the 21st Century
Tina K. Ramnarine
PART THREE
Identity
15 Masculinity, Race and Transculturalism in a Norwegian Context
Stan Hawkins
16 Hip Hop as Public Pedagogy
Alexandra D’Urso
17 Urban Music and the Complex Identities of New Nationals in Scandinavia
Henrik Marstal
18 Rap, Reggae, and White Minoritization
Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
19 Sami Festivals and Indigeneity
Thomas R. Hilder
20 Digitally Mediated Identity in the Cases of Two Sami Artists
Ann Werner
Contributors
Index