Studies in Popular Music
Edited by Lutgard Mutsaers and Gert Keunen
October 2017 | Routledge
Introduction
Together Apart: Popular Music of the Low Countries with the Flow and against the Odds
LUTGARD MUTSAERS and GERT KEUNEN
Part I: Framing and Facilitating
1. Futile Dutchness or Idiosyncratic Transnationalism: Homemade Pop, National Identity and Global Culture
RENÉ BOOMKENS
2. The Zone In Between: The Principled Realm of Alternative Mainstream in Flanders
GERT KEUNEN
3. Upstart Among the Arts: The Rise of Rock into the Dutch Subsidy System
ANDRÉ NUCHELMANS
4. Mixing Multiple Tracks: Migration, Diaspora and Transcultural Music in Flanders
LISELOTTE SELS
Part II: Creation and Curation
5. Broken Circle Rebound: New Regionalism and Vernacular Indie-Folk
NIELS VAN POECKE
6. From Thrash to Cash: Forging and Legitimizing Dutch Metal
PAUWKE BERKERS and JULIAN SCHAAP
7. Crossover Collectivities and Electronic Samples: Jazz’s Popularization in the Digital Era
KRISTIN MCGEE
8. This Must Be Belgium: Roots, Progress and Legacy of New Beat
PEDRO DE BRUYCKERE
Part III: Close Encounters
9. “The Windmill’s Turning”: Lifecycle of a Signature Song for Holland
LUTGARD MUTSAERS
10. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Golden Earring Before and After the “Dutch Invasion”
MAARTEN STEENMEIJER
11. Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Land of Sex and Drugs: Life and Legacy of Herman Brood
RUTGER VAHL
12. “Sanomi” versus “Shalalie”: Showing Off Difference at the Eurovision Song Contest
ALBERT MEIJER
Part IV: Changes and Choices
13. “We Too Are Specimens of Homo Sapiens“: Holebi Culture between Agitprop and Pop
ROBBE HERREMAN
14. Pirates of the North Sea: Introduction and Impact of Commercial Pop Radio
GER TILLEKENS
15. State of Independents: Small-scale Production in a Globally Connected Place
ERIK HITTERS
16 A Critical Choice: The Language of Lyrics as an Issue of Genre and Era
GEERT BUELENS
Coda
17. A Tiny Dot: Some Foreign Awareness of Popular Music Made in The Low Countries
LUTGARD MUTSAERS and KOOS ZWAAN
Afterword
18. “I Made a Difference”: A Conversation with Raymond van het Groenewoud
GEERT BUELENS