PULS Musik- Och Dansetnologisk Tidskrift, Vol 1, 2016
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Musik- och dansetnologisk tidskrift Journal for ethnoMusicology and ethnochoreology Vol 1 2016 Svenskt visarkiv Musikverket PULS Musik- och dansetnologisk tidskrift, Vol 1, 2016 Journal for ethnoMusicology and ethnochoreology, Vol 1, 2016 Utges av/Published by: Svenskt visarkiv/Musikverket/Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research/ Swedish Performing Arts Agency http://musikverket.se/svensktvisarkiv/ Huvudredaktör/General Editor: Dr Ingrid Åkesson, Svenskt visarkiv, [email protected] Gästredaktör/Guest Editor, Vol 1 & 2: Assoc Prof Karin L Eriksson, Linnaeus University, [email protected] Recensionsredaktör/Review Editor: Prof Alf Arvidsson, University of Umeå, [email protected] Redaktionsråd/Editorial Board: Assoc Prof Dan Lundberg, Dr Ingrid Åkesson, Dr Karin Strand, Assoc Prof Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius, Svenskt visarkiv, Assoc Prof, Mats Nilsson, University of Gothenburg. http://musikverket.se/puls/ E-post/Email: [email protected] Vetenskapligt råd/Advisory Board: Prof Johannes Brusila, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Prof Tellef Kvifte, Telemark University College, Norway Dr Laura Leante, Durham University, UK Dr Mats Melin Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland Dr Annika Nordström, The Institute for Language and Folklore, Göteborg, Sweden Prof Eva Sæther, Lund University, Malmö Academy of Music, Sweden Graphic Design & Layout: Jonas André Front Cover Photo: Colorful Waters by Kitty Terwolbeck / CC BY 2.0 ISSN: 2002-2972 © 2015–2016, Statens musikverk & the authors PULS Vol 1 Contents 3 Contents Introduction 4 Editorial 5 Guest Editor’s Column 7 Some Aspects of What Ethnomusicology “Is” from a Swedish Educational Perspective ARTICLES Tina K. Ramnarine: Frozen Through Nordic Frames 13 Gunnar Ternhag: En folkmusikens förebild blir till 32 Eric Sahlström som grammofonartist Kim Ramstedt: “Ladies and Gentlemen” 48 Nostalgised Pavilion Dance Culture as a Performative Resource in the We Love Helsinki Club Concept Owe Ronström: Four Facets of Festivalisation 67 REVIEWS Bilder ur musikskapandets vardag 84 Mellan kulturpolitik, ekonomi och estetik A Feminist Ethnomusicology 88 Writings on Music and Gender Nordic Dance Spaces 90 Practicing and Imagining a Region Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe 92 Talking Dance 95 Contemporary Histories from the Southern Mediterranean Tryckta visor 96 Perspektiv på skillingtryck som källmaterial Black Europe 98 The Sounds and Images of Black People in Europe Pre-1927 Svensk jazzbibliografi 100 Conference Reports 102 Svenska kommittén av ICTM 108 Authors and Other Contributors 110 Information 111 4 Introduction PULS Vol 1 Introduction Dan LUnDberg Director of the Archive and Library Department at Statens musikverk/Swedish Performing Arts Agency It IS wIth great pride that we present a new Swedish annual In a way, the journal is an updated sequel – in a communica- journal for ethnomusicology and ethnochoreo logy. There is tive as well as a scholarly sense – of two former periodicals no doubt that there is a need for such a publication, and Puls from Svenskt visarkiv, the yearbook Sumlen (1976–1995) and is intended to contribute to discussion and publication within the popular journal Noterat (1995–2014). Puls, however, is these areas in a Nordic/Scandinavian perspective. intended to be a modern, scholarly publication which will be Neither ethnomusicology nor ethnochoreology are es- submitted for inclusion in approved reference indexes. tablished as disciplines of their own in Sweden; studies and The work on this first issue ofPuls began in 2014, and the research are pursued at a variety of university departments. This, publication of the first issue – in what we hope will be a long of course, entails both drawbacks and strengths. A necessary sequence – is an important milestone for everybody involved. consequence and an obvious benefit is that durable networks I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the authors of have developed across departmental boundaries and between articles, reviews and reports, who have contributed to this first researchers and students at various institutions. Svenskt issue, and, in addition, the external peer reviewers, who in a visarkiv/Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research has joint effort with the editorial board of Puls have ensured the become a kind of hub for many of these networks. Consequently, scholarly level of the publication. I would also like to give special the staff of the Centre arrange seminars, produce publications, thanks to Professor Tina K. Ramnarine, who wrote this issue's participate in Scandinavian and international conferences, feature article. The editorial work on Puls is led by two editors, and other joint activities. Puls – Journal for Ethnomusicology who have put in a great deal of work on the journal: Dr. Ingrid and Ethnochoreology is a new initiative of this kind. Our hope Åkesson, who leads the work of Svenskt visarkiv’s editorial is that Puls will stimulate the development of research in the team, and Associate Professor Karin L Eriksson, Linnaeus fields of dance and music, but also function as a forum where University, Växjö, who serves as guest editor for the first two important issues may be discussed in an interdisciplinary and issues of Puls. I am also grateful to Professor Alf Arvidsson open-minded setting. who serves as review editor. Puls addresses a readership of scholars, students, performers, and all others interested in the uses and functions of music and dance in society. The focus of the journal is primarily within the fields of ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology, but it also embraces adjacent disciplines, such as other aspects of musicology and choreology, folklore, literature, and related studies of traditional and popular culture. The journal focuses on discussion of the expressions, roles and functions of music and dancing in society. The published material includes theoretical research, analyses, reviews and reports from conferences and seminars. PULS Vol 1 Editorial 5 Editorial IngrID Åkesson General Editor weLcome to the first issue ofPuls – Journal for Ethnomusi- through the lens of a popular film, to the media-based creation cology and Ethnochoreology! of a Swedish nyckelharpa player as a folk music icon; from As one ambition of the Editorial Board is for the journal to nostalgic couple-dancing events as a retro phenomenon in become a voice that takes part in an extensive Scandinavian/ today’s club culture to an in-depth discussion of festivalisation Nordic discourse, and in addition is able to attract international as a cross-genre phenomenon in a global context. readers, several articles are published in English, and all An on-going discussion of ethnomusicology and ethnochoreo- articles have an abstract in English. In addition, the main part logy along the lines mentioned above will be an objective for of the editorial text is in English. Articles are peer reviewed the journal also in the future. Some of the forthcoming issues according to international praxis. Another ambition of the of Puls will have more specific themes – see for example the Editorial Board is to provide reviews of new books and other Call for Contributions for Puls no. 2 in Swedish and in English, relevant material, especially for Scandinavian readers, within but the journal will also be open for other texts discussing the wide field of cultural scholarship that we aim to include the expressions, roles and functions of music and dancing in in the journal. Likewise, the journal contains short reports society from different perspectives. from national and international conferences, symposia and so forth. Book reviews and conference reports are published in the preferred language of the author, which in most cases, The Articles in this first issue, is Swedish. For the launch of the first issue of Puls, we decided to ask Profes- Dan Lundberg mentions in his introduction that Svenskt sor Tina K. Ramnarine at the Royal Holloway University of London, visarkiv/the Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research who has done research on several musical phenomena in the has for years functioned as a kind of focal point for networks Nordic area, to write a feature article. Ramnarine’s multifaceted of scholars and students, interested in ethnomusicology and text takes a position at the centre of ethnomusicology today, ethnochoreology. The most extensive of these networks is the dealing simultaneously with a number of contemporaneous Swedish Committee of The International Council for Traditional aspects. She studies expressions of popular culture, represented Music (ICTM, http://www.ictmusic.org). Puls is not affiliated with by the Disney filmFrozen (2013); a turn within the discipline, the ICTM, as is, for example, the Norwegian journal Musikk which has become stronger in recent years. Indigenous music og Tradisjon, which is produced by the Norwegian Committee and culture in a continuous process of change and negotiation is of the ICTM. However, each issue of Puls will contain current another much-studied aspect, here represented by the merging information on conferences, seminars and other activities of of Sami joik and Scandinavian Protestant hymn singing in the the Swedish Committee of the ICTM. film’s opening track by Sami-Norwegian composer Frode The theme of the first issue of Puls was announced as “a survey Fjellheim. Thoughts on soundscapes or sonic worlds are also of ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology as adjacent