Nordic Music Videos

Anna-Elena Pääkkölä is a Finnish Academy Research Fellow 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 the 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 Tomáš Jirsa), which addresses music video’s travels across media, platforms, and cultural industries.John Richardson is a 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.

What can we learn about the Nordic region if we pay close attention to its musicalsounds 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 theaudiovisual vernacular of our time: the music video, in its myriad forms. Thiscollection is truly a treasure trove for anyone interested in music videos and theircultural significance in the Nordic region, from the pre-televisual rock films of the1950s to emerging post-digital forms of the 2020s.Tore StørvoldAssociate Professor of MusicNorwegian 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