TY - JOUR
KW - Allsång på Skansen
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - popular music
KW - Swedishness
KW - tradition
AU - L. Kaijser
AB - Allsång på Skansen (Sing-a-long at Skansen) is an entertainment held at Skansen since the 1930s. The show consists of an audience singing together under the supervision of a sing-a-long conductor. The program is very popular and shown on television. This article investigates how this event contributes to the intangible cultural heritage. A review of the music performed at Allsång på Skansen displays a range of music both anchored in Skansen s own history as a music venue and at the same time mirroring a present popular music scene. The program contributes to a knowledge of past time songs sung in Swedish. As such it backs a Swedish popular music heritage. This should not be mistaken for Swedish music, instead it displays music rooted in an Anglo-American tradition that has been framed into a Swedish setting. The study shows how the first years worked as a blueprint for establishing a tradition, even though it was not labeled as such until the early nineties. From the seventies, it is noticeable that a mayor part of the sing-a-long songs are selected from a time period some thirty years ago. This gives way for a popular musical heritage that stems roughly one generation back in time.
BT - RIG Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift
LA - Swedish
M1 - 4
N1 - Publisher: Foreningen for Svensk Kulturhistoria
N2 - Allsång på Skansen (Sing-a-long at Skansen) is an entertainment held at Skansen since the 1930s. The show consists of an audience singing together under the supervision of a sing-a-long conductor. The program is very popular and shown on television. This article investigates how this event contributes to the intangible cultural heritage. A review of the music performed at Allsång på Skansen displays a range of music both anchored in Skansen s own history as a music venue and at the same time mirroring a present popular music scene. The program contributes to a knowledge of past time songs sung in Swedish. As such it backs a Swedish popular music heritage. This should not be mistaken for Swedish music, instead it displays music rooted in an Anglo-American tradition that has been framed into a Swedish setting. The study shows how the first years worked as a blueprint for establishing a tradition, even though it was not labeled as such until the early nineties. From the seventies, it is noticeable that a mayor part of the sing-a-long songs are selected from a time period some thirty years ago. This gives way for a popular musical heritage that stems roughly one generation back in time.
PY - 2017
SP - 193
EP - 215
T2 - RIG Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift
TI - Allsång på Skansen Reflektioner kring populärmusik, tradition och immateriella kulturarv
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85078413597&partnerID=40&md5=31d14cce802c3d84cc6714e65f732d4e
VL - 100
SN - 00355267 (ISSN)
ER -