Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Foreword -- Introduction: The Small Country that Grew Big in Popular Music -- Part I: The Historical Development of the Swedish Popular-Music Mainstream -- 1 A Very Swedish Phenomenon -- 2 Blacklists and Hitlists: Public-Service Radio and Musical Gatekeeping -- 3 The Story of Svensktoppen: How the Swedish Music Industry Survived the Anglophone 1960s and Invested for the Future -- Part II: The Swedishness of Swedish Popular-Music Genres -- 4 The Troubadours: Stylistic and Sociocultural Transformations of the Literary Visa in the 1960s -- 5 Progg: Utopia and Chronotope -- 6 Swedish Dance Bands: Danceable, Melodious, and Familiar -- 7 Keep it Country! Lots of Fiddle and Steel! Negotiations and Re-Negotiations in the Swedish Country-Music Culture -- 8 When Post-Modern Times Arrived: Dork Punk and Nostalgia as Experiments of Cultural Orientation 1973-1989 -- Part III: Diversification and Professionalization -- 9 Contextualizing Extreme-Metal Music: The Case of the Swedish Metal Nursery -- 10 Water Sprites and Herding Calls: References to Folk Music in Swedish Pop and Schlager Music 1990-2015 -- 11 Nordik Beats: Swedish Electronic Dance Music-From Underground to Superstardom -- 12 Swedish Music Export: The Making of a Miracle -- 13 The Swedish Music-Festival Scene -- Part IV: Swedish Artist Personas -- 14 Ulf Lundell: Literary Rocker -- 15 Titiyo: Race, Gender, and Genre in Swedish Popular Music -- 16 The Politics of the Mask: The Knife as Queer-Feminists -- Coda -- 17 Ambassadors, Merchants, and Masterminds: Swedish Popular Music Abroad -- Afterword-An Elderly Songwriting Gentleman: A Conversation with Mikael Wiehe -- A Selected Bibliography of Swedish Popular Music -- Notes on Contributors -- Index