{"title":"Between Sweden and the world: Documentary films about ABBA’s international success","authors":"E. Mazierska","doi":"10.1386/jsca_00057_1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the phenomenon of ABBA, the most popular band ever to originate in Sweden, as accounted for in four documentaries, used to compare domestic and foreign responses to ABBA. Discussion draws on the concept of authenticity as formulated by Allan Moore, arguing that\n authenticity is not located in the music itself, but in the relationship between the artists and their audience. Analysis also considers the authenticity of the documentary form.","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca_00057_1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article examines the phenomenon of ABBA, the most popular band ever to originate in Sweden, as accounted for in four documentaries, used to compare domestic and foreign responses to ABBA. Discussion draws on the concept of authenticity as formulated by Allan Moore, arguing that
authenticity is not located in the music itself, but in the relationship between the artists and their audience. Analysis also considers the authenticity of the documentary form.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema is a scholarly journal devoted to excellent research and stimulating discussion focusing on the cinemas of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, both within their national and Nordic contexts, and as transnational cinemas in a globalized world.