The Nature of Nordic Music

Part I: IDENTITIES

1. Nordicness in Scandinavian music: A complex question Michael Fjeldsoe & Sanne Krogh Groth

2. Escaping Nordic musical exoticism? Hans Weisethaunet

3. In search of the Nordic electroacoustic Andrew Bentley & James Andean

4. Starting from scratch: Nation-building and the creation of an Icelandic choral tradition Arni Heimir Ingolfsson

Part II: IMAGES

5. Not Nordic Enough? 'Nordic Cool' as a Janus-headed strategy for artistic inclusion and expulsion Henrik Marstal

6. And Bjoerk of course - the image of Icelandic music Margret Sigrun Sigur?ardottir

7. Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world Haftor Medboe

8. Folk and popular music in the Nordic countries Tor Dybo

Part III: ENVIRONMENTS

9. Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in the Water Soundscape Composition Contest Meri Kytoe

10. Nordic drone: Pedal points and static textures as musical imagery of the northerly environment Juha Torvinen & Susanna Vaelimaeki

11. Telling the time: Communication and temporality in Nordic new music Tim Howell & Richard Powell

12. Sigur Ros: Talking timbre Michael Rofe