1st Edition
Nordic Noise Hip-Hop, Culture, and Community in Northern Europe
Introduction (Side A): Setting the scene: An Introduction to Nordic Hip-Hop Studies
Susan Lindholm and Kristine Ringsager
Introduction (Side B): Nordic Hip-Hop Studies in a Global Hip-Hop Framework
Murray Forman
Theme 1: Negotiating (Cultural) Norms
Chapter 1: Re-imagining ‘Swedishness’: Intersectional Feminist Resistance and Reflection on the Work of Silvana Imam
Susan Lindholm and Alexandra D`Urso
Chapter 2: Normate and Crip Articulations of Dis/ability in Swedish Hip-Hop
Kalle Berggren
Chapter 3: Vulnerability and White Masculinities: Evangelical Christianity and New Spirituality in the Performance Personas of Finnish Rappers Ameeba and Roni Samuel
Inka Rantakallio and Tuomas Järvenpää
Theme 2: Migration and (Non-)belonging
Chapter 4: Ghetto Plan Governance and the ‘Gangster Wave’ in Danish Hip-Hop
Kristine Ringsager
Chapter 5: ‘I’m Just One Amongst Others There.’ Rappers’ Expressions of Racial(ised) (Non-)Belonging
Elina Westinen
Chapter 6: Signifyin(g) Politics: How Karpe Changed Public Debates of Immigration in Norway
Kjetil Klette Bøhler
Theme 3: Pedagogy and Traditions
Chapter 7: From Nordic Bildung to Contemporary Gangster Anthems: Educationalised Dilemmas in Swedish Hip-Hop
Johan Söderman
Chapter 8: Navigating Stereotypes, Becoming Credible: Skills, Gender, Race, and Nation Among Swedish Hip-Hop Practitioners
Andrea Dankić
Chapter 9: Novelty and Distance in Early Danish Rap Music
Mads Krogh
Biography
Susan Lindholm, PhD in History, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests include cultural history, memory, and gender in connection to transnational and ranslocal othering processes. In 2016, she defended her PhD thesis Remembering Chile: An Entangled History of Hip-Hop In-Between Sweden and Chile.
Kristine Ringsager, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research is centred on the anthropological study of music, primarily focusing on racialized and gendered cultures and infrastructures in music life and on the role of music in processes of social change.
