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Constructing the Cosmopolitan Arena Concert

Lukasz Swiatek

Lukasz Swiatek

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The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Introduction Arena concerts that care about the world have been flourishing in recent times. These music events provide large-scale, immersive, socially conscious entertainment. They engage on-site and external audiences, who consume...

Lejlighedssange

Charlotte Rørdam Larsen

Charlotte Rørdam Larsen

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI : Genres: Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Lejlighedssange or festsange (personalized songs written for a festive occasion) constitute a widespread community singing tradition at Danish and Nordic parties. The tradition is little known in the rest of Europe. Typical occasions...

Sámi Music

Thomas R. Hilder

Thomas R. Hilder

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI : Genres: Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Sámi music is a diverse and dynamic scene which reflects the globalized modernity of the indigenous people of the Nordic region (Norway, Sweden and Finland) and Russian Kola peninsula. Experiencing a history of land dispossession...

Heavy Metal in Norway

Lars Koppang Norberg

Lars Koppang Norberg

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI : Genres: Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Although an arena of multiple metal styles, Norwegian metal is associated with black metal in particular. Originally a reaction to the death metal scene of the late 1980s, Norwegian black metal was established as a genre in the early 1990s....

Norwegian Folk Music, Contemporary

Mats Johansson

Mats Johansson

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI : Genres: Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Norwegian folk music consists of instrumental and song traditions which have developed and changed in different ways over the centuries. Historically, this music is used for dancing and ceremonial functions by rural Norwegian communities....

Oslo and Eastern Norway

Hans Weisethaunet

Hans Weisethaunet

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Odd Skårberg

Odd Skårberg

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VII : Locations: Europe

The Continuum International, 2016

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...Population: Oslo city – 508,000; metropolitan area – 972,400 (2001) As Norway’s capital city, Oslo has functioned as an economic, administrative and cultural center. From the 1980s onward, Oslo’s economic structure...

Kristiansand, Stavanger and Southern Norway

Tor Dybo

Tor Dybo

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VII : Locations: Europe

The Continuum International, 2016

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...Population: Kristiansand city – 75,280 (2004); Stavanger city – 112,819 (2004) The region of southern Norway consists of three counties: Aust-Agder, Vest-Agder and Rogaland. Among the cities in the Agder...

Tromsø and Northern Norway

Hans Weisenhaunet

Hans Weisenhaunet

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VII : Locations: Europe

The Continuum International, 2016

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...Population: Tromsø city: 154,351 (2004) Tromsø is the largest of Norway’s northern cities. Northern Norway encompasses the three administrative counties of Finnmark, Troms and Nordland. Finnmark is by far the largest...

Bergen and Western Norway

Hans Weisenhaunet

Hans Weisenhaunet

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VII : Locations: Europe

The Continuum International, 2016

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...Population: City of Bergen: 237,430 (2004) Bergen, the second-largest city in Norway, used to be Norway’s main trade port and, in medieval times, was one of the largest cities...

The Contemporary Transnational Scene

Marcus Moberg

Marcus Moberg is a senior researcher and formerly held the position of Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Religion at Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. His research interests include the sociology of religion, religion and consumer culture, and religion, media and culture studies. He has published widely on Christian metal and contemporary intersections of religion, media and popular culture. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Christian Metal : History, Ideology, Scene

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...This chapter outlines Christian metal’s diffusion on a transnational scale. Utilizing the methodological framework of scene, the chapter focuses on Christian metal culture as a distinct transnational religious-popular cultural space...