Sökning: "popular song"

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  1. 1. En liten sång som alla andra: Melodifestivalen 1959––1983 : A little song like all others: The Melody Festival 1959––1983

    Författare :Alf Björnberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Eurovision Song Contest; popular song; Sweden; musical style analysis; popular song lyrics; music and mass media; popular music and ideology;

    Sammanfattning : With the exception of three years, the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation has been a steady participant in the Eurovision Song Contest since 1958. Except for the first year, all Swedish entries have been selected by means of a televised national qualifying event. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The English occupational song

    Författare :Gerald Porter; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; work; metaphor; occupational song; industrial song; women s songs; weaving; mining; the miller; railways; engelska; English;

    Sammanfattning : This is the first full-length study in English of occupational songs. They occupy the space between rhythmic work songs and labour songs in that the occupation signifies. Occupation is a key territorial site. If the métier of the protagonist is mentioned in a ballad, it cannot be regarded as merely a piece of illustrative detail. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Cornelis Vreeswijk. Artist - vispoet - lyriker

    Författare :Ulf Carlsson; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; litteraturkritik; Popular culture; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; carnival; song Iyrics; intertextuality; blues; outsider; melancholy; General and comparative literature; literary theory; literature criticism; litteraturteori;

    Sammanfattning : The six chapters of this study approach the work of Cornelis Vreeswijk from different perspectives with an emphasis on the motifs, poetic technique, and intertextuality of individual songs amd Iyrical texts. Vreeswijks s work is interpreted in the context of contemporary history and debate, the cultural tradition to which it belongs and important events in the author's life. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Sågarnas sång : folkligt musicerande i sågverkssamhället Holmsund 1850-1980

    Författare :Alf Arvidsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnomusicology; working-class culture; workers music; soundscape; amateur music; popular music; dancing; concerts;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the public music-making by locals in Holmsund 1850—1980, and to explain the great variety of musical forms in hope to thereby illuminate the importance of local music-making for the workers' musical taste, but also how workers' musical aesthetics were affected by a more general working-class culture. The variety of musical forms is explained according to John Blacking's distinction between change of musical system, and variation and innovation within a musical system. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Känsliga bitar : text- och kontextstudier i sentimental populärsång

    Författare :Karin Strand; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; cultural studies; gender studies; kitsch; lyrics; nostalgia; popular culture; popular music; schlager; sentimentality; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation is a study of a song type that was popular during the whole of the twentieth century: the sentimental schlager. As a sub-genre of the dance and high-spirited mainstream schlager these songs are characterized by nostalgia and sentimentality. LÄS MER