Song Lyrics and Literary History

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Introduction: Song lyrics and literary history
· Exploring the cultural history of a poem-meant-to-be-sung - challenges and choices
1. The usability of 'Vårvindar friska'
· Julia Nyberg as Euphrosyne
· Romanticism, folk songs and the productive reception of the past
· The poem and its procreativity
· The early reception and a snowball effect
2. Performing the nation: Male appropriations
· New elites and levelling fraternities
· Poetry and song in cooperation and competition
· The politics of performing the nation
· Masculine freshness on tour
· A shared effort
3. Railways and lyrics connecting the nation
· Poetry and railways
· The order of participation
· Royalism and old bones
· Tegnér cut up and adapted
· Three concerts and a fountain
4. Making it over there: Migration and identity building
· Travelling poetry, travelling songs
· Newspaper evidence: A unique landscape of uses
· Organized Swedish singing in America and live performances
· Supporting Swedishness
5. Carry me back: Folk songs, racechanges and the making of national canons
· Racechanges and racism in Swedish America
· National art and fantasies of home
· 'Vårvindar friska' and plantation songs
· There's no place like home: Transatlantic exchanges
6. Working women: International stars and Nordic femininity
· Going to Hollywood
· The way it really was: Lost innocence in the West
· Kyrkjebø and the demands of the market
· Work, sex and Nordic femininity
7. Investing in the future: Advertising and consumer culture
· Spring desires and the ritualization of consumption
· Lonely hearts: the economy of personal happiness
· Promoting and expanding Swedishness with lyrics and cars
8.Textual transformations
· Translating as tinting: Professionals versus amateurs
· For better, for worse: Healthy children and merry drinkers
· Translation-adaptations: Poetry and popular songs
· Fan translations, machines and childhood recollections
9. Nazi and ultra-nationalist appropriations - and the limits of (mis)use
· Appropriation strategies - and legal limits
· The instability and power of texts - and conceptual limits
10. Song lyrics and 'Vårvindar friska' as a challenge to literary history
· The endurance of poetry, orality and aurality in the modern era
· The importance of song lyrics for a social account of literary history
· Invented traditions connecting past, present and future
· Reading, listening and performing: The interdependence of music and literature
· Possible literary histories, concepts and models to think by

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