Contemporary Finnish folk music, unlike internationally successful contemporary Finnish rock (HIM, Nightwish, The Rasmus), transmits Finnish and Finno-Ugric tradition in a reinterpreted form to international audiences. This article explores this transmission through a case analysis of Äijö, a song by Värttinä, "the brand name" of Finnish World Music. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) provides a unified framework, which allows for tan examination of how different folk music traditions and the practices of Western popular music have been used in Äijö. The data with which this research was undertaken consists of publicly available media texts representing different stages of the production, distribution and consumption of Äijö.Contrairement au...
Listening to historical oral poetry usually means listening to archival sound recordings with no pos...
Since the 1960s, a unique Komi singing and narrative tradition has been described in the Kolva regio...
The Finnish epic poem Kalevala (18491) is a written transcription leaning mainly on a collection of ...
Abstract. The 1950s and early 1960s are often understood as a golden era of popular music in Finland...
Folk metal is a music genre originated from heavy metal music. For many artists and fans, folk metal...
In the 1990’s a new term pärimusmuusika (~‘traditional music’, literally ‘inheritance music’) has em...
The article focuses on the religious aspect of Finno-Ugric song types Big Oak, Sweeping Brush Lost a...
The purpose of this paper is to study representations of Finland in contemporary Finnish popular mus...
This thesis focuses on the adaptation of the Kalevala (1849) – Finland’s national epic –, and other ...
This bachelor thesis deals with the use of Finnish oral literature, specifically with oral poetry in...
Kalevala-metric oral poetry comprises various genres, from epic and lyric to ritual poetry, dancing ...
Kalevalaic runosinging is a Baltic-Finnic tradition of metered oral poetry. In Finland, runo singing...
The article studies, with analysis of the writing process, how Finnish poet Otto Manninen (1872–1950...
This article discusses current articulations of Finnishness in three different Finnish popular music...
Straipsnyje aptariamas dainos tapatybės kitimas, remiantis konkrečia folklorine medžiaga, turima Lie...
Listening to historical oral poetry usually means listening to archival sound recordings with no pos...
Since the 1960s, a unique Komi singing and narrative tradition has been described in the Kolva regio...
The Finnish epic poem Kalevala (18491) is a written transcription leaning mainly on a collection of ...
Abstract. The 1950s and early 1960s are often understood as a golden era of popular music in Finland...
Folk metal is a music genre originated from heavy metal music. For many artists and fans, folk metal...
In the 1990’s a new term pärimusmuusika (~‘traditional music’, literally ‘inheritance music’) has em...
The article focuses on the religious aspect of Finno-Ugric song types Big Oak, Sweeping Brush Lost a...
The purpose of this paper is to study representations of Finland in contemporary Finnish popular mus...
This thesis focuses on the adaptation of the Kalevala (1849) – Finland’s national epic –, and other ...
This bachelor thesis deals with the use of Finnish oral literature, specifically with oral poetry in...
Kalevala-metric oral poetry comprises various genres, from epic and lyric to ritual poetry, dancing ...
Kalevalaic runosinging is a Baltic-Finnic tradition of metered oral poetry. In Finland, runo singing...
The article studies, with analysis of the writing process, how Finnish poet Otto Manninen (1872–1950...
This article discusses current articulations of Finnishness in three different Finnish popular music...
Straipsnyje aptariamas dainos tapatybės kitimas, remiantis konkrečia folklorine medžiaga, turima Lie...
Listening to historical oral poetry usually means listening to archival sound recordings with no pos...
Since the 1960s, a unique Komi singing and narrative tradition has been described in the Kolva regio...
The Finnish epic poem Kalevala (18491) is a written transcription leaning mainly on a collection of ...