The Nature of Nordic Music. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tim Howell.
• Editors: Howell, Tim
• Contents: Part I: IDENTITIES 1. Nordicness in Scandinavian music: A complex question Michael Fjeldsøe & Sanne Krogh Groth 2. Escaping Nordic musical exoticism? Hans Weisethaunet 3. In search of the Nordic electroacoustic Andrew Bentley & James Andean 4. Starting from scratch: Nation-building and the creation of an Icelandic choral tradition Árni Heimir Ingólfsson Part II: IMAGES 5. Not Nordic Enough? 'Nordic Cool' as a Janus-headed strategy for artistic inclusion and expulsion Henrik Marstal 6. And Björk of course – the image of Icelandic music Margrét Sigrún Sigurðardóttir 7. Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world Haftor Medboe 8. Folk and popular music in the Nordic countries Tor Dybo Part III: ENVIRONMENTS 9. Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in the Water Soundscape Composition Contest Meri Kytö 10. Nordic drone: Pedal points and static textures as musical imagery of the northerly environment Juha Torvinen & Susanna Välimäki 11. Telling the time: Communication and temporality in Nordic new music Tim Howell & Richard Powell 12. Sigur Rós: Talking timbre Michael Rofe
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (250 pages), (27 illustrations)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315462837; 1315462834
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