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Whilst it appears as if ABBA hasn't changed in those 40 years, Sweden has (Photo: YouTube)

How ABBA distorted our perceptions of Sweden

Sweden is a musical country - where the world's very best producers come from, where international artists such as Roxette, Europe, Avicii and Swedish House Mafia develop, where songs are sung while drinking snaps on one of the many holidays, or while dancing around a maypole during the unofficial National Day of Midsommer, to the weekly music shows on television (of which, of course, Melodifestivalen – the national qualifier for the real work "Eurovision", when the whole of Sweden stands sti...

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Sjors Joosten is a PhD student in sociology at Stockholm University, specialising the role of hip-hop music in the process of immigrant integration in Sweden.

Whilst it appears as if ABBA hasn't changed in those 40 years, Sweden has (Photo: YouTube)

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Sjors Joosten is a PhD student in sociology at Stockholm University, specialising the role of hip-hop music in the process of immigrant integration in Sweden.

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