Made in Finland

Studies in Popular Music

Edited by Toni-Matti Karjalainen and Kimi Kärki


October 2020 | Routledge

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Introduction

Between East and West, Local and Global

TONI-MATTI KARJALAINEN and KIMI KÄRKI


 

Part I: Emerging Foundations of Popular Music in Finland

2. Reincarnations of Emma: Categorizing Finnish Mainstream Music

OLLI HEIKKINEN

3. The Emergence of Suomirock in the 1970s and 1980s

TERHI SKANIAKOS

4. And so, Finland Became a Heavy Metal Nation

TONI-MATTI KARJALAINEN


 

Part II: Environments, Borderlines, Minorities

5. Karelian Music

PEKKA SUUTARI

6. Negotiating Major and Minor Structures: Popular Music and the Swedish-speaking Minority of Finland

JOHANNES BRUSILA


 

Part III: Transnationalisms

7. Mary Hopkin Impersonators and Finnish Mods: The Adoption of British Invasion-era Pop Music in Finland

KARI KALLIONIEMI

8. Workers of the World Awaken! The Songs of Finnish North Americans as Social and Ideological Mediators at the Turn of the 20th Century

SAIJALEENA RANTANEN


 

Part IV: Sounds From the Underground

9. The Hunters of New Sounds: Early Electronic Music Instruments and the Dawn of DIY Culture

PETRI KULJUNTAUSTA

10. From Underground to the Spotlight: Finnish Minimal Techno in the 1990s

PERTTI GRÖNHOLM

11. Underground Over the Net: Three Cases of Underground Music in Finland in the Age of Platforms

JUHO KAITAJÄRVI-TIEKSO and JUHO HÄNNINEN


 

Part V: Redefining Finnishness

12. Music, Ice Hockey Lions, and the Construction of a National Community

KAJ AHLSVED

13. Alternative Femininities, Voices, and Queer Body Politics in Alma’s “Dye My Hair”

HANNA-MARI RIIHIMÄKI and ANNA-ELENA PÄÄKKÖLÄ

14. Performing National Identities

KIMI KÄRKI


 

Coda

TONI-MATTI KARJALAINEN


 

Afterword

16. From a Campfire to the Global Stage: A Conversation with Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish

TONI-MATTI KARJALAINEN