Studies in Popular Music
Edited by Toni-Matti Karjalainen and Kimi Kärki
October 2020 | Routledge
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