The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries

Popular music has come to play a significant role in the political and cultural history of the Nordic countries. Research on the region's culture has largely followed national narratives created by political and economic institutions, even as cultural life in the region--which spans a large area of northern Europe and the North Atlantic--displays more complex geographies and evolving global dynamics. 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 in the specific context of the region's cultures and natural environments, written by the foremost experts in the field. Chapters highlight and challenge music's place in exotic images of the North and in transnational environmentalism, tourism, racism, and media industries. The Handbook illustrates how transnational dynamics evolve and shape musical life and the institutional spheres of policy, education, and research.

Author: Fabian Holt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/01/2017
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780190603908

About the Author

Edited by Fabian Holt, Associate Professor at Roskilde University and Visiting Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, and Edited by Antti-Ville Kärjä, Adjunct professor of popular music studies, University of Helsinki