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Songs from Sweden : shaping pop culture in a globalized music industry / Ola Johansson.

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Songs from Sweden shows how Swedish songwriters and producers are the creative forces behind much of today's international pop music. As Ola Johansson reveals, the roots of this "music miracle" can be found in Sweden's culture, economy, and thriving music industry, concentrated i...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Johansson, Ola
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Series:Geographies of media.
Subjects:
Popular music > Sweden > History and criticism.
Popular music.
Sweden.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Series Editors' Preface: Thank You for the Music
  • Works Cited
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Introduction: The Swedish Music Miracle, from 1.0 to 2.0
  • The Swedish Music Miracle 1.0
  • Explaining the Swedish Success
  • The Role Model Thesis
  • The Early Adopter Thesis
  • The English Proficiency Thesis
  • The Globalization Thesis
  • The Small Market Thesis
  • The Industrial Cluster Thesis
  • The Governmental and Institutional Support Thesis
  • Discussion and Outlook
  • References.
  • 2 Local Music in a Global Network: Circulation, Reputation, and Hybridity
  • Circulation
  • Globalization and the Cultural Industries
  • Theories of Circulation
  • Reputation
  • Buzz
  • Hybridity
  • Introduction to Cultural Hybridity
  • What Is Swedish Music?
  • Swedish Music as Local-Global Hybrid
  • References
  • 3 The Main Players
  • Method
  • The Historical Background to 2.0
  • Data Analysis
  • Reputation in Songwriting and Production
  • The People Network: Global and Local
  • The Role of Publishers and Record Companies in Songwriting
  • The Idol Factor
  • Swedish Collaboration Style.
  • Other Elements of Swedish Culture
  • The Role of Stockholm
  • From Stockholm to Los Angeles and Back Again
  • The Need for Proximity
  • References
  • 4 An Analysis of Swedish Pop Music
  • The Songwriting Process
  • What Is Swedish Pop?
  • The Cheiron Sound as Swedish Sound
  • Analytical Songwriting
  • Melody-First Songwriting
  • Lyrics in Swedish Pop Music
  • Genre Influences in Sweden
  • Genre Crossing as Swedish
  • Swedish-American Hybrid Elements
  • Circulation of Styles
  • References
  • 5 Concluding Thoughts
  • References
  • References
  • Index.

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