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Blue eyed pop : the history of popular music in Iceland

Title
Blue eyed pop : the history of popular music in Iceland / Dr. Gunni ; assisted by Haukur S. Magnússon.
Author
Gunni, Dr.
Publication
[Reykjavík] : Sögur útgáfa, [2013?]
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Haukur S. Magnússon.
Description
221 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), maps; 22 x 24 cm
Subject
  • Popular music > Iceland > History and criticism
  • Rock music > Iceland > History and criticism
  • Rock musicians > Iceland > Portraits
  • Rock groups > Iceland > Portraits
  • Popular culture > Iceland > 20th century > Portraits
  • Popular culture > Iceland > 21st century > Portraits
  • Popmusik
  • Island
Note
  • Title from verso of blank title page.
  • Chronicles the history of popular music movements in Iceland beginning with the pre-1950's all the way to the present.
  • Discographies on pages (214-216); five useful internet pages (page 217).
Contents
"Pop" before 1950: dancing out of the darkness -- The beginning of modern pop bands, singers, song-writers and labels of the early fifties -- Rock arrives: Icelanders get all excited about rock 'n' roll -- Beatlemania in Iceland: the war cry from Liverpool reaches the reef -- The hippies rock out: getting heavy and progressive -- The early eightes rock explosion: Rokk in Reykjavík -- Life after Rokk í Reykjavík: the joyful and vivid eighties -- The Sugarcubes and their protégés: world domination or death! -- The ball-pop bands of the nineties (and beyond): artistic ambition at the country ball -- Metal and hard (and not so hard) rock in the nineties: guitars guitars everywhere -- Björk conquers the world: I was just created this way -- GusGus and Electronica in Iceland: dancing with a new toolbox -- Sigur Rós: we haven't got any hate mail yet -- Rock, rap, raggea and opo in the new millennium: full of energy and promise -- The "Krútt"-generation: the introverted ambassadors -- The class of now: anything can happen!
ISBN
  • 9789935448453 (hd.bd.)
  • 9935448452 (hd.bd.)
OCLC
  • ocn869208871
  • 869208871
  • SCSB-14493158
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Columbia University Libraries