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Divided Nation on Records: The Transnational Formation of Finnish Popular Music During the Gramophone Fever

Year: 2021

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Tikka and Suodenjoki explore how imported gramophone records shaped the idea of Finnish popular music and thereby fed the experiences of the nation among Finnish consumers in the late 1920s. They focus on Finnish-American records, which were imported to Finland by transnational agents during the so-called gramophone fever. As these records reached consumers, they tapped into experience communities that were based on the deep political divides of the newly independent nation-state, which had witnessed a Civil War in 1918. In a very short period of time, modern popular music, played and danced to in homes and public spaces, became a key means by which people lived out the nation and its class-based demarcations in their everyday practices.

Source: Palgrave studies in the history of experience

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69882-9_6

Authors: Marko Tikka, Sami Suodenjoki

Institution: Tampere University

Language: English

Topic: Music History and Culture

Subfield: Music

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W3166990083

FWCI: 24.29

Cites: 4

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10