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.

ContentsFiguresTablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Music in a Globalizing RegionFabian HoltPART ONEGeography1 Musical Borealism: Nordic Music and European HistoryPhilip V. Bohlman2 Nordic Modernity and the Structure of the Musical LandscapeFabian Holt3 Inclusive Popular Music Education?Alexis A. Kallio and Lauri V?kev?4 Roots, Routes, and Cosmopolitanism: David Lindley Meets Harding HankHans Weisethaunet5 From the Faroes to the World StageJoshua Green6 Christian Metal and the Translocal NorthHenna Jousm?ki7 Music and Landscape in IcelandTony Mitchell8 Music and Environmentalism in IcelandNicola DibbenPART TWOHistory9 A Metahistorical Enquiry into Nordic Popular Music HistoriographyAntti-Ville K?rj?10 Echoes of the Colonial Past in Discourse on North Atlantic Popular MusicKimberly Cannady11 Swedish Prog Rock and the Search for a Timeless UtopiaSverker Hylt?n-Cavallius and Lars Kaijser12 Trajectories of Karelian Music After the Cold WarPekka Suutari13 The Memorial Ceremony after the 2011 Ut?ya MassacreJan Sverre Knudsen14 Aspirations and Global Futures: Lessons from S?mi Popular Music for the 21st CenturyTina K. RamnarinePART THREEIdentity15 Masculinity, Race and Transculturalism in a Norwegian ContextStan Hawkins16 Hip Hop as Public PedagogyAlexandra D'Urso17 Urban Music and the Complex Identities of "New Nationals" in ScandinaviaHenrik Marstal18 Rap, Reggae, and White MinoritizationBenjamin R. Teitelbaum19 S?mi Festivals and IndigeneityThomas R. Hilder20 Digitally Mediated Identity in the Cases of Two S?mi ArtistsAnn WernerContributorsIndex