Nordic Music Videos fills a gap in the existing research on music videos by bringing together new perspectives on music videos across the Nordic region, from the academic to the practical, the aesthetic to the industrial, while addressing issues of local, transnational and global significance.
The collection offers ground-breaking scholarly research into music videos, including critical readings of music videos, explorations of emerging formats, discussions of music video aesthetics and Nordic music videos in a global context and within popular culture. The books chapters are interdisciplinary explorations which recognise the strengths of specific areas of scholarly research, such as music video studies, audiovisual studies, popular music studies, and film/media studies, while nevertheless bridging disciplines and doing justice to the multimodal and intermedial nature of practices. Furthermore, the book includes the viewpoints of industry practitioners through interviews with artists and music video directors and research on industry-related issues.
The book is likely to be of interest to a variety of readers, ranging from researchers interested in popular music and audiovisual expression in the Nordic region to masters level students and undergraduates. The industry angles and the focus on Nordic cultures will also interest anyone who wants to discover how music videos developed or influence the Nordic societies.
Chapters 1, 4 and 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [ Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Nordic Music Videos fills a gap in the existing research on music videos by bringing together new perspectives on music videos across the Nordic region, from the academic to the practical, the aesthetic to the industrial, while addressing issues of local, transnational and global significance.
Recenzijas
What can we learn about the Nordic region if we pay close attention to its musical sounds and visions? A lot, it turns out. This book elevates the conversation on Nordicness to a new level of critical insight, and it does so by taking seriously the audiovisual vernacular of our time: the music video, in its myriad forms. This collection is truly a treasure trove for anyone interested in music videos and their cultural significance in the Nordic region, from the pre-televisual rock films of the 1950s to emerging post-digital forms of the 2020s.
Tore Stųrvold Associate Professor of Music Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1. List of Figures
2. List of Contributors
3. Introduction: Nordic
Sounds, Visions and Imaginings
4. Sigur Rós, Valtari #14, and Audiovisual
Stirrings of Icelandicness
5. Self-Disclosure and Masking Strategies in the
Music Videos of Björk's Vulnicura
6. Ambiguity in A-ha's "Take on Me":
Analyzing Audiovisual Aesthetics through Data Visualization
7. Naked,
Natural: Female Body Positivity and Agentic Sexuality in Nordic Pop Music
Videos
8. Antiracist Strategies in Hkeem's "Ghettoparasitt"
9. BDSM
Aesthetics, Capitalism, and Resistance in the Audiovisual Work of Hatari
10.
Sci-fi Hero for a Generation: Finnish Girlhood in a Music Video by Vesala
11.
Landscape and Cultural Heritage in Faroese Music Videos
12. Ariosophic
Whiteness in Early Norwegian Black Metal Videos
13. Finland-Swedish Music
Video: Meaningful Products of a Non-Existent Industry for a Non-Existent
market
14. British "Fishing" in the Nordic Music Video Waters
15. Oulu Music
Video Festival: Where Local Talent Meets Global Experiences at a Festival in
Northern Finland
16. Interview with Rasmus Stolberg of Efterklang
17.
Interview with Martin de Thurah
18. Interview with Aurora
19. Killer Music
Videos: Nordic Noir Title Sequences and Concentrated "Nordicness"
20. Rock
and Roll Films in the Nordic Countries during the 1950s
21. Vernacular Music
Video: Danish Music Videos Outside the Music Industry
22. Videography
23.
Index
Anna-Elena Pääkkölä is a Finnish Academy post doc researcher at Åbo Akademi University. She has published in various article collections and journals on music videos and audiovisual expression in English and Finnish on themes including performance, identity, intertextuality, and intersectional feminisms.
Mathias Bonde Korsgaard is an associate professor at Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University. He has published extensively on music videos and audiovisual culture, including Music Video After MTV (2017), which discusses music video in the digital era, and Traveling Music Videos (2023, with Tomį Jirsa), which addresses music videos travels across media, platforms, and cultural industries.
John Richardson is professor at the University of Turku. He has published extensively on music videos and co-edited two influential handbooks, The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media. He is author of An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal, which discusses new directions in audiovisual expression.
