Made in Sweden serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th century Swedish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars of Swedish popular music and covers the major figures, styles and social contexts of pop music in Swedish. Although the vast maj

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 Mainstream1. 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 Genres4. 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 Diversification9. 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 Personas14. 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)