MADE IN FINLAND book in pre-sale

Our forthcoming book now in pre-sale by Routledge! With a nice price too. It comprises 16 insightful views on Finnish popular music by 15 writers. There is also a lengthy chapter on the early years of Finnish metal export, including some specific notes on Amorphis, among many other bands. And a conversation with Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish as an icing on the blue&white cake. Info here: https://www.routledge.com/Made-in-Finland-Studies-in-Popular-Music/Karjalainen-Karki/p/book/9780367228910.


DESCRIPTION
Made in Finland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music in Finland. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Finland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Emerging Foundations of Popular Music in Finland; Environments, Borderlines, Minorities; Transnationalisms; and Redefining Finnishness.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Between East and West, Local and Global TONI-MATTI KARJALAINEN AND KIMI KÄRKI

PART 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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 – From a Campfire to the Global Stage: A Conversation with Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish TONI-MATTI KARJALAINEN