Studies in Popular Music
Edited by Alf Björnberg and Thomas Bossius
December 2016 | Routledge
Introduction
The Small Country That Grew Big in Popular Music
ALF BJÖRNBERG and THOMAS BOSSIUS
Part I: The Historical Development of the Swedish Popular-Music Mainstream
1. A Very Swedish Phenomenon
OLLE EDSTRÖM
2. Blacklists and Hitlists: Public-Service Radio and Musical Gatekeeping
ALF BJÖRNBERG3. The Story of Svensktoppen: How the Swedish Music Industry Survived the Anglophone 1960s and Invested for the Future
HENRIK SMITH-SIVERTSEN
Part II: The Swedishness of Swedish Popular-Music Genres
4. The Troubadours: Stylistic and Sociocultural Transformations of the Literary Visa in the 1960s
MARITA RHEDIN5. Progg: Utopia and Chronotope
SVERKER HYLTÉN-CAVALLIUS6. Swedish Dance Bands: Danceable, Melodious, and Familiar
LARS LILLIESTAM7. Keep it Country! Lots of Fiddle and Steel! Negotiations and Re-Negotiations in the Swedish Country-Music Culture
THOMAS BOSSIUS8. When Post-Modern Times Arrived: Dork Punk and Nostalgia as Experiments of Cultural Orientation 1973–89
PETER DAHLÉN
Part III: Professionalization and Diversification
9. Contextualizing Extreme-Metal Music: The Case of the Swedish Metal Nursery
SUSANNA NORDSTRÖM10. Water Sprites and Herding Calls: References to Folk Music in Swedish Pop and Schlager Music 1990–2015
KARIN L. ERIKSSON11. Nordik Beats: Swedish Electronic Dance Music – From Underground to Superstardom
THOMAS BOSSIUS12. Swedish Music Export: The Making of a Miracle
RASMUS FLEISCHER13. The Swedish Music-Festival Scene
JONAS BJÄLESJÖ
Part IV: Swedish Artist Personas
14. Ulf Lundell: Literary Rocker
ULF LINDBERG15. Titiyo: Race, Gender, and Genre in Swedish Popular Music
ANN WERNER16. The Politics of the Mask: The Knife as Queer-Feminists
KAJSA WIDEGREN
Coda
17. Ambassadors, Merchants, and Masterminds: Swedish Popular Music Abroad
MORTEN MICHELSEN