Made in the Low Countries: Studies in Popular Music

Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• Together Apart: Popular Music of the Low Countries with the Flow and against the Odds (LUTGARD MUTSAERS AND GERT KEUNEN)
• PART I: Framing and Facilitating
• 1 Futile Dutchness or Idiosyncratic Transnationalism: Homemade Pop, National Identity and Global Culture (RENE BOOMKENS)
• 2 The Zone In Between: The Principled Realm of Alternative Mainstream in Flanders (GERT KEUNEN)
• 3 Upstart Among the Arts: The Rise of Rock into the Dutch Subsidy System (ANDRE NUCHELMANS)
• 4 Mixing Multiple Tracks: Migration, Diaspora and Transcultural Music in Flanders (LISELOTTE SELS)
• PART II: Creation and Curation
• 5 Broken Circle Rebound: New Regionalism and Vernacular Indie-Folk (NIELS VAN POECKE)
• 6 From Thrash to Cash: Forging and Legitimizing Dutch Metal (PAUWKE BERKERS AND JULIAN SCHAAP)
• 7 Crossover Collectivities and Electronic Samples: Jazz's Popularization in the Digital Era (KRISTIN MCGEE)
• 8 This Must Be Belgium: Roots, Progress and Legacy of New Beat (PEDRO DE BRUYCKERE)
• PART III: Close Encounters
• 9 "The Windmill's Turning": Lifecycle of a Signature Song for Holland (LUTGARD MUTSAERS)
• 10 Knocking on Heaven's Door: Golden Earring Before and After the "Dutch Invasion" (MAARTEN STEENMEIJER)
• 11 Rock 'n' Roll in the Land of Sex and Drugs: Life and Legacy of Herman Brood (RUTGER VAHL)
• 12 "Sanomi" versus "Shalalie": Showing Off Difference at the Eurovision Song Contest (ALBERT MEIJER)
• PART IV: Changes and Choices
• 13 "We Too Are Specimens of Homo Sapiens": Holebi Culture between Agitprop and Pop (ROBBE HERREMAN)
• 14 Pirates of the North Sea: Introduction and Impact of Commercial Pop Radio (GER TILLEKENS)
• 15 State of Independents: Small-scale Production in a Globally Connected Place (ERIK HITTERS)
• 16 A Critical Choice: The Language of Lyrics as an Issue of Genre and Era (GEERT BUELENS)
• CODA
• A Tiny Dot: Some Foreign Awareness of Popular Music Made in The Low Countries (LUTGARD MUTSAERS AND KOOS ZWAAN)
• AFTERWORD
• "I Made a Difference": A Conversation with Raymond van het Groenewoud (GEERT BUELENS)
• Selected Bibliography on Popular Music of the Low Countries