Rímur in the Nuclear Age: Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson and Icelandic Traditional Music
Abstract In this article, I examine Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson's performances of Icelandic traditional vocal music, or kveða music, in Reykjavík's early 1980s punk-rock scene. Sveinbjörn was an unlikely participant in the Reykjavík scene as a rural farmer in his late fifties and the first hig...
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crunivillinoispr:10.5406/21567417.67.3.06 2023-12-10T09:53:15+01:00 Rímur in the Nuclear Age: Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson and Icelandic Traditional Music Cannady, Kimberly 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21567417.67.3.06 https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/article-pdf/67/3/383/2020046/383cannady.pdf en eng University of Illinois Press Ethnomusicology volume 67, issue 3, page 383-405 ISSN 0014-1836 2156-7417 Music Anthropology Cultural Studies journal-article 2023 crunivillinoispr https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.67.3.06 2023-11-12T14:59:54Z Abstract In this article, I examine Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson's performances of Icelandic traditional vocal music, or kveða music, in Reykjavík's early 1980s punk-rock scene. Sveinbjörn was an unlikely participant in the Reykjavík scene as a rural farmer in his late fifties and the first high priest of the Ásatrú religion, yet he developed strong personal relationships with many of the younger musicians. Nearly twenty years later, Sveinbjörn's legacy and vocality inspired the postrock band Sigur Rós's collaborations with Steindór Andersen, another influential kveða musician. I argue that Sveinbjörn's performances in the 1980s offered a culturally intimate bridge between the past and present during an unsettling time of social, political, and economic transitions for many Icelanders. This material draws on archival and ethnographic research, and I offer new interventions in terminology and translation of Icelandic traditional music studies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Reykjavík Reykjavík UI Press - University of Illinois Press (via Crossref) Reykjavík Ethnomusicology 67 3 383 405 |
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Abstract In this article, I examine Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson's performances of Icelandic traditional vocal music, or kveða music, in Reykjavík's early 1980s punk-rock scene. Sveinbjörn was an unlikely participant in the Reykjavík scene as a rural farmer in his late fifties and the first high priest of the Ásatrú religion, yet he developed strong personal relationships with many of the younger musicians. Nearly twenty years later, Sveinbjörn's legacy and vocality inspired the postrock band Sigur Rós's collaborations with Steindór Andersen, another influential kveða musician. I argue that Sveinbjörn's performances in the 1980s offered a culturally intimate bridge between the past and present during an unsettling time of social, political, and economic transitions for many Icelanders. This material draws on archival and ethnographic research, and I offer new interventions in terminology and translation of Icelandic traditional music studies. |
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