History of Music in Sweden

The Sweden music shares the custom of Nordic traditional dance music with its nearest countries in the north Europe, which include the waltz, mazurka, polka, polska and schottische.

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The accordion, fiddle, nyckelharpa and clarinet are among the very popular Swedish traditional instruments. The instrumental genre is the largest one in the Swedish folk music. During in the 60s, Swedish youth flashed an origins renewal in Swedish traditional culture. Many incorporated Spelmanslag (traditional artists’ clubs) and performed on normal radio and TV. They concentrated on the instrumental polska music, with choral and influences from other folk genres which become more popular since the 1990s. In the year 1970, the dansband culture also started.

Swedish music has also featured more new and pop influences. Based on the per capita basis, Swedish is one of the world’s most popular exporters of well-known music. Its extreme popular export is known as ABBA, which was a worldwide musical occurrence. Another Swedish musician known as DeDe, was so popular in Japan in the late 1990s that she encouraged a collectible doll. Sweden has also traditionally controlled the music of Scandinavain setting, with Danes and Norwegians paying attention to music in Swedish before the other cases. During in the late 80s and in the early 90s, Scandinavian death metal ensembles became very renowned with the international heavy metal community.

Sweden’s main classic troubadour was known as Carl Michael bellman. Others include Cornelis Vreeswijk, Evert Taube, Fred Akerstrom and Povel Ramel.