Made in the Low Countries

Studies in Popular Music

Edited by Lutgard Mutsaers and Gert Keunen


October 2017 | Routledge

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Introduction

Together Apart: Popular Music of the Low Countries with the Flow and against the Odds

LUTGARD MUTSAERS and GERT KEUNEN


 

Part I: Framing and Facilitating

1. Futile Dutchness or Idiosyncratic Transnationalism: Homemade Pop, National Identity and Global Culture

RENÉ BOOMKENS

2. The Zone In Between: The Principled Realm of Alternative Mainstream in Flanders

GERT KEUNEN

3. Upstart Among the Arts: The Rise of Rock into the Dutch Subsidy System

ANDRÉ NUCHELMANS

4. Mixing Multiple Tracks: Migration, Diaspora and Transcultural Music in Flanders

LISELOTTE SELS


 

Part II: Creation and Curation

5. Broken Circle Rebound: New Regionalism and Vernacular Indie-Folk

NIELS VAN POECKE

6. From Thrash to Cash: Forging and Legitimizing Dutch Metal

PAUWKE BERKERS and JULIAN SCHAAP

7. Crossover Collectivities and Electronic Samples: Jazz’s Popularization in the Digital Era

KRISTIN MCGEE

8. This Must Be Belgium: Roots, Progress and Legacy of New Beat

PEDRO DE BRUYCKERE


 

Part III: Close Encounters

9. “The Windmill’s Turning”: Lifecycle of a Signature Song for Holland

LUTGARD MUTSAERS

10. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Golden Earring Before and After the “Dutch Invasion”

MAARTEN STEENMEIJER

11. Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Land of Sex and Drugs: Life and Legacy of Herman Brood

RUTGER VAHL

12. “Sanomi” versus “Shalalie”: Showing Off Difference at the Eurovision Song Contest

ALBERT MEIJER


 

Part IV: Changes and Choices

13. “We Too Are Specimens of Homo Sapiens“: Holebi Culture between Agitprop and Pop

ROBBE HERREMAN

14. Pirates of the North Sea: Introduction and Impact of Commercial Pop Radio

GER TILLEKENS

15. State of Independents: Small-scale Production in a Globally Connected Place

ERIK HITTERS

16 A Critical Choice: The Language of Lyrics as an Issue of Genre and Era

GEERT BUELENS


 

Coda

17. A Tiny Dot: Some Foreign Awareness of Popular Music Made in The Low Countries

LUTGARD MUTSAERS and KOOS ZWAAN


 

Afterword

18. “I Made a Difference”: A Conversation with Raymond van het Groenewoud

GEERT BUELENS