A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa
Mary Hopkin impersonators and Finnish mods: The adoption of British Invasion-era pop music in Finland
Tekijät: Kari Kallioniemi
Toimittaja: Toni-Matti Karjalainen, Kimi Kärki
Kustannuspaikka: Abingdon
Julkaisuvuosi: 2020
Kokoomateoksen nimi: Made in Finland
Sarjan nimi: Routledge World Popular Music Series
Aloitussivu: 99
Lopetussivu: 110
Sivujen määrä: 12
ISBN: 978-0-36-722891-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429277429-7
This article will deal with Finnish national identity and popular
music from the point of view of the dissemination of Anglo-American popular
music to Finland. However, in this case, the question is not to try to evaluate
more often mentioned American influences on Finnish pop/rock, but the dissemination
of the Anglo-aspects. By identifying the peculiarities of ‘Anglo-Finnishness’ of pop and giving background
to the topic I will then introduce three different historical phases which have
characterised the integration of Anglo elements in Finnish pop/rock.
The musical transmission of Anglophone pop to Finland has followed
a route similar to that described by Edward Larkey in his concept of musical
transculturation, in which he challenged the ’cultural imperialism’ thesis and
instead defined different uses and ways of musical transmission (1993)- Much
of the recent writing of this subject has followed the route to identify
transnational, local and national pop/rock ’scenes’ (e.g. Bennett and Peterson
2004), and by putting the idea of national scenes into this context and
background
In connection with this, the article will ask in detail how English
influences (e.g. British Invasion, progressive rock and folk, punk and
post-punk) were adopted in the Finnish pop/rock music, starting in the
beat-group era and continuing through progressive rock, post-punk and new wave
eras. It will especially concentrate on the immigrant English musicians and
their work in Finland (e.g. Jim Pembroke, Frank Robson), but also on the idea
of how English music influences were adopted and how they were perceived in the
Finnish music press expressing attitudes towards these influences. The source material will be based on interviews and music press
articles debating on the (non)importance of Anglophone influences in the native
pop/rock culture and this idea of producing the original and distinctive
‘Finnish scene’.
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