Table of Contents
Introduction: The Small Country That Grew Big in Popular Music (Alf Björnberg and Thomas Bossius)
Part I: The Historical Development of the Swedish Popular-Music Mainstream
1. A Very Swedish Phenomenon (Olle Edström)
2. Blacklists and Hitlists: Public-Service Radio and Musical Gatekeeping (Alf Björnberg)
3. The Story of Svensktoppen: How the Swedish Music Industry Survived the Anglophone 1960s and Invested for the Future (Henrik Smith-Sivertsen)
Part II: The Swedishness of Swedish Popular-Music Genres
4. The Troubadours: Stylistic and Sociocultural Transformations of the Literary Visa in the 1960s (Marita Rhedin)
5. Progg: Utopia and Chronotope (Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius)
6. Swedish Dance Bands: Danceable, Melodious, and Familiar (Lars Lilliestam)
7. Keep it Country! Lots of Fiddle and Steel! Negotiations and Re-Negotiations in the Swedish Country-Music Culture (Thomas Bossius)
8. When Post-Modern Times Arrived: Dork Punk and Nostalgia as Experiments of Cultural Orientation 1973–89 (Peter Dahlén)
Part III: Professionalization and Diversification
9. Contextualizing Extreme-Metal Music: The Case of the Swedish Metal Nursery (Susanna Nordström)
10. Water Sprites and Herding Calls: References to Folk Music in Swedish Pop and Schlager Music 1990–2015 (Karin L. Eriksson)
11. Nordik Beats: Swedish Electronic Dance Music – From Underground to Superstardom (Thomas Bossius)
12. Swedish Music Export: The Making of a Miracle (Rasmus Fleischer)
13. The Swedish Music-Festival Scene (Jonas Bjälesjö)
Part IV: Swedish Artist Personas
14. Ulf Lundell: Literary Rocker (Ulf Lindberg)
15. Titiyo: Race, Gender, and Genre in Swedish Popular Music (Ann Werner)
16. The Politics of the Mask: The Knife as Queer-Feminists (Kajsa Widegren)
Coda
17. Ambassadors, Merchants, and Masterminds: Swedish Popular Music Abroad (Morten Michelsen)
Afterword
18. An Elderly Songwriting Gentleman: A Conversation with Mikael Wiehe (Alf Björnberg and Thomas Bossius)