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Made in Sweden
Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of twentieth-century Swedish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars of Swedish popular music and covers the major figures, styles and social contexts of pop music in Swedish. Although the vast majority of the contributors are Swedish, the essays are expressly written for an international English-speaking audience. No knowledge of Swedish music or culture will be assumed. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Swedish popular music; each section ...
Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century
From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. A refreshing intervention in dance studies, this book brings together elements of historiography, cultural memory, folklore, and dance across comparatively narrow but markedly heterogeneous localities. Rooted in investigations of often newly discovered primary sources, the essays afford many opportunities to compare sociocultural and political reactions to the arrival and practice of popular rotating couple dances, such as the Waltz and the Polka. Leading contributors provide a transnational and affective lens onto str...
The Helicopter Heist
A fast-paced, riveting novel inspired by the true story of a group of four young Swedish men who pulled off “one of the most spectacular heists of all time” (Time). The men behind the daring daylight robbery have been imprisoned, but the $6.5 million that they stole has never been recovered. Sami has a history of petty crime, but that’s all behind him now. He has a new child to provide for, so he’s training as a chef, ready to lead a quiet life. But when a business deal suddenly goes sideways, Sami is left wondering how he’ll ever provide for his newborn daughter. Michel and his family fled a bloody civil war in Lebanon when he was a child. He grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm su...
A Companion to Nordic Cinema
A Companion to Nordic Cinema presents a collection of original essays that explore one of the world’s oldest regional cinemas from its origins to the present day. Offers a comprehensive, transnational and regional account of Nordic cinema from its origins to the present day Features original contributions from more than two dozen international film scholars based in the Nordic countries, the United States, Canada, Scotland, and Hong Kong Covers a wide range of topics on the distinctive evolution of Nordic cinema including the silent Golden Age, Nordic film policy models and their influence, audiences and cinephilia, Nordic film training, and indigenous Sámi cinema. Considers Nordic cinema...
Between Prague Spring and French May
Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.
The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies
The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories, and cultural criticism. It rests on the argument that diasporic jazz is not a passive, second-hand reflection of music originating in the US, but possesses its own integrity, vitality, and distinctive range of identities. This companion reveals the contradictions of cultural globalization from which diasporic jazz cultures emerge, through 45 chapters within seven thematic parts: • What is Diasporic Jazz? • Histories and Counter-Narratives • Making, Dissemi...
Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA
Revel in the bright lights of ABBA’s show-stopping musical career, and hear the whispers from the shadows that lurked behind. Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story of Abba is the first true, full-scale biography ever written about the band. With lucid prose and an inquisitive eye, author, Carl Palm, covers all aspects of the band’s lives and careers. The period before the group formed; their global domination throughout the 1970s; their marriages and divorces; their business empire and; their eventual, inevitable split.
Song Translation: Lyrics in Contexts
Song Translation: Lyrics in Contexts grew out of a project dedicated to the translation of song lyrics. The book aligns itself with the tradition of descriptive translation studies. Its authors, scholars from Finland, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Norway and Sweden, all deal with the translation of song lyrics in a great variety of different contexts, including music and performance settings, (inter)cultural perspectives, and historical backgrounds. On the one hand, the analyses demonstrate the breadth and diversity of the concept of translation itself, on the other they show how different contexts set up conditions that shape translational practices and products in different ways. The book is intended for translation studies scholars as well as for musicologists, students of language and/or music and practicing translators; in short, anybody interested in this creative and fascinating field of translational practice.
Dylan : en kärlekshistoria
Bob Dylans text och musik har präglat en generation svenskar. Dylan - En kärlekshistoria är en reportage- och intervjubok. Det är en bok som utgår från Bob Dylans liv, möten med ett antal kända och okända svenskar - men mest en kärlekshistoria. Jörgen Lindström, den unge pojken i Bergmans film Tystnaden, berättar varför han vigt sitt liv åt Dylan. Lindström är en av världens främsta experter på Bob Dylan, en svensk som sett närmare 150 Dylan-konserter världen över. Izzy Young, som upptäckte Dylan i New York i början av sextiotalet och arrangerade hans första konsert, skildrar en annan tid och ett annat liv Nikke Ström var musikerkompis med Totta Näslund, vår frä...
Fred Åkerström : ingenstans fri som en fågel : en biografi
Fred Åkerström blev Fred med svenska folket, liksom Vreeswijk blev Cornelis. Det lyckades inte ens Bellman med. Fred gjorde en skiva vartannat år, medverkade med sånger på fem samlingsalbum, spelade teater och turnerade land och rike runt, oftast per järnväg eller landsvägsbuss. Freds röst var ett mäktigt instrument. En orgel som genom sina många pipor brusade visor över landet. Mitt i livet skrev han plötsligt några egna sånger som "Oslo" och översatte Tom Paxtons låt till "Jag ger dig min morgon". Fred valde sina sånger ytterst noggrant. När Fred tryckte ner alla röstens tangenter stannade världen ett ögonblick. Författaren och musikern Peter Mosskin berättar hur de...
