"Rather than being a separate category, children's is nowadays a specific consumer segment in a variety of musical genres. It has commercial potential in that parents...

“If there is much room around a composer’s ‘self’ both in nature and culture, discreteness and the experience of space can probably be heard in her...

"A perennial anomaly in Finnish music has finally been put right: the national capital now has a concert hall that is up to international standards. And...

"The positive spin on this is that research can adapt itself to the plurality of the music scene and can renew itself, engage in dialogue and...

"The critical left-wing side of me thinks the cultural export boom is just another symptom of the Western ideological climate, where everything is evaluated by economic...

"The north is one of the main facets of the cultural identities of countries such as Canada, Norway, and Finland. The north is a complex phenomenon...

"Technological developments in the past century have made our listening habits more active and diverse. We westerners can today choose quite freely what we want to...

"This issue rounds off the 25th year of the Finnish Music Quarterly, and we have deliberately adopted a similar strategy. While pausing to muse for a...

"Ecological music is also about the way humans and the rest of nature interact with one another. But in practice, ecology in music can be realised...