Nordic Noise

Based on empirical research on hip-hop cultures, scenes, and artists in the Nordic countries, this book provides new perspectives on how hip-hop has been intertwined with wider societal and political contexts and discussions.

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.

Introduction (Side A): Susan Lindholm and Kristine Ringsager: Setting the scene: An Introduction to Nordic Hip-Hop Studies Introduction (Side B): Murray Forman: Nordic Hip-Hop Studies in a Global Hip-Hop Framework Theme 1: Negotiating (Cultural) norms; Theme 2: Migration and (Non-)belonging; Theme 3: Pedagogy and Traditions