"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...

"An old joke claims that you can get your wife back by playing a country record backwards. Playing a Finnish iskelmä record in reverse would definitely...

"Western urban culture is a noise culture. Despite all futurist manifestos, the urban soundscape cannot be approached as only an aesthetic and musical phenomenon. The noise...