The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries

Fabian Holt is Associate Professor at the University of Roskilde, where he teaches in the Department of Communication and Arts, and Visiting Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin. His publications include Genre in Popular Music (Chicago 2007) and Musical Performance and the Changing City (Routledge 2013, co-edited with Carsten Wergin). Holt was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago 2003-2004 and visiting scholar at Columbia University 2010-2011. Antti-Ville Kärjä works as Academy Research Fellow at Music Archive JAPA, Helsinki, Finland, with a research project "Music, Multiculturality and Finland" (2014-2018). He is Adjunct Professor of popular music studies at the University of Helsinki and his fields of expertise include music and multiculturalism, historiography of popular music, and music in audiovisual media. He is currently Chair of the Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the journals Perfect Beat and IASPM@journal.

Contents

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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 Väkevä

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 Jousmäki

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 Kärjä

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 Hyltén-Cavallius and Lars Kaijser

12 Trajectories of Karelian Music After the Cold War
Pekka Suutari

13 The Memorial Ceremony after the 2011 Utøya Massacre
Jan Sverre Knudsen

14 Aspirations and Global Futures: Lessons from Sámi 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 Sámi Festivals and Indigeneity
Thomas R. Hilder

20 Digitally Mediated Identity in the Cases of Two Sámi Artists
Ann Werner

Contributors
Index