Divided Nation on Records: The Transnational Formation of Finnish Popular Music During the Gramophone Fever

Marko Tikka; Sami Suodenjoki

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-69882-9_6

Divided Nation on Records: The Transnational Formation of Finnish Popular Music During the Gramophone Fever

Marko Tikka
, Sami Suodenjoki

History, Philosophy and Literary Studies

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Abstract

Tikka and Suodenjoki explore how imported gramophone records shaped the idea of Finnish popular music and thereby fed the experiences of the nation among Finnish consumers in the late 1920s. They focus on Finnish-American records, which were imported to Finland by transnational agents during the so-called gramophone fever. As these records reached consumers, they tapped into experience communities that were based on the deep political divides of the newly independent nation-state, which had witnessed a Civil War in 1918. In a very short period of time, modern popular music, played and danced to in homes and public spaces, became a key means by which people lived out the nation and its class-based demarcations in their everyday practices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000
Editors	Ville Kivimäki, Sami Suodenjoki, Tanja Vahtikari
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	6
Pages	137-161
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-69882-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-69881-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69882-9_6
Publication status	Published - Jun 2021
Publication type	A3 Book chapter

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN (Print)	2524-8960
ISSN (Electronic)	2524-8979

Keywords

gramophone records
popular music
transnational history
nationalism
communism
communities of experience
music industry
history of experiences

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Divided Nation on RecordsFinal published version, 637 KBLicence: CC BY

http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202106165922Licence: CC BY

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Vapaan Venäjän marssi ylirajaisena kokemusyhteisöjen rakentajana
Translated title of the contribution: The march of Free Russia as a transnational builder of experience communitiesSuodenjoki, S., 23 Oct 2023, Kansallisesta ylirajaiseen: Kulttuuri, perinne ja kirjallisuus. Hämäläinen, N., Karhu, H. & Martikainen, T. (eds.). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, p. 17-45 (Kalevalaseuran vuosikirja; vol. 102).
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Vapaan Venäjän sävelet jakolinjojen uurtajina
Translated title of the contribution: The divisive tunes of Free RussiaSuodenjoki, S., 9 Jan 2023, In: Idäntutkimus. 29, 4, p. 26-45 20 p.
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Kuinka populaarimusiikista tuli yhteistä: tanssimusiikin kansallistuminen vuosina 1927-1930
Tikka, M., 2021, In: Historiallinen Aikakauskirja. 119, 1, p. 5-21
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Tikka, M., & Suodenjoki, S. (2021). Divided Nation on Records: The Transnational Formation of Finnish Popular Music During the Gramophone Fever. In V. Kivimäki, S. Suodenjoki, & T. Vahtikari (Eds.), Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000 (pp. 137-161). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69882-9_6

Tikka, Marko ; Suodenjoki, Sami. / Divided Nation on Records : The Transnational Formation of Finnish Popular Music During the Gramophone Fever. Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000. editor / Ville Kivimäki ; Sami Suodenjoki ; Tanja Vahtikari. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. pp. 137-161 (Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience).

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Tikka M, Suodenjoki S. Divided Nation on Records: The Transnational Formation of Finnish Popular Music During the Gramophone Fever. In Kivimäki V, Suodenjoki S, Vahtikari T, editors, Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. p. 137-161. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-69882-9_6

Divided Nation on Records: The Transnational Formation of Finnish Popular Music During the Gramophone Fever

Abstract

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The march of Free Russia as a transnational builder of experience communities

The Finnish Civil War in Popular Songs: Transnational Echoes of a Divided Nation, 1918-1930

Vapaan Venäjän marssi suomalaistyöläisten Neuvostoliitto-suhteen ylirajaisena muovaajana

Research output

Vapaan Venäjän marssi ylirajaisena kokemusyhteisöjen rakentajana

Vapaan Venäjän sävelet jakolinjojen uurtajina

Kuinka populaarimusiikista tuli yhteistä: tanssimusiikin kansallistuminen vuosina 1927-1930

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