Nordic Music Videos

Anna-Elena Pääkkölä, Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark), John Richardson

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English

Routledge
22 September 2025

Rock & Pop music; Media studies; Music industry

Series: Ashgate Screen Music Series

Nordic Music Videos fills a gap in the existing research on music videos by bringing together new perspectives on music videos across the Nordic region, from the academic to the practical, the aesthetic to the industrial, while addressing issues of local, transnational, and global significance.

The collection offers groundbreaking scholarly research into music videos, including critical readings of music videos, explorations of emerging formats, discussions of music video aesthetics and Nordic music videos in a global context and within popular culture. The book’s chapters are interdisciplinary explorations which recognise the strengths of specific areas of scholarly research, such as music video studies, audiovisual studies, popular music studies, and film/media studies, while nevertheless bridging disciplines and doing justice to the multimodal and intermedial nature of practices. Furthermore, the book includes the viewpoints of industry practitioners through interviews with artists and music video directors and research on industry-related issues.

The book is likely to be of interest to a variety of readers, ranging from researchers interested in popular music and audiovisual expression in the Nordic region to master’s level students and undergraduates. The industry angles and the focus on Nordic cultures will also interest anyone who wants to discover how music videos developed or influence Nordic societies.

Chapters 1, 4 and 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Edited by: Anna-Elena Pääkkölä, Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark), John Richardson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 770g
ISBN: 9781032845890
ISBN 10: 1032845899
Series: Ashgate Screen Music Series
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 22 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna-Elena Pääkkölä is a Finnish Academy Research Fellow at Åbo Akademi University. She has published in various article collections and journals on music videos and audiovisual expression in English and Finnish on themes including performance, identity, intertextuality, and intersectional feminisms. Mathias Bonde Korsgaard is an associate professor at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University. He has published extensively on music videos and audiovisual culture, including Music Video After MTV (2017), which discusses music video in the digital era, and Traveling Music Videos (2023, with Tomáš Jirsa), which addresses music video’s travels across media, platforms, and cultural industries. John Richardson is a professor at the University of Turku. He has published extensively on music videos and co-edited two influential handbooks, The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media. He is author of An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal, which discusses new directions in audiovisual expression.

Reviews for Nordic Music Videos

What can we learn about the Nordic region if we pay close attention to its musical sounds and visions? A lot, it turns out. This book elevates the conversation on ‘Nordicness’ to a new level of critical insight, and it does so by taking seriously the audiovisual vernacular of our time: the music video, in its myriad forms. This collection is truly a treasure trove for anyone interested in music videos and their cultural significance in the Nordic region, from the pre-televisual rock films of the 1950s to emerging post-digital forms of the 2020s. Tore Størvold Associate Professor of Music Norwegian University of Science and Technology