Scene creation engines and apprenticeships

What is a scene? It is a group of people who are producing work in public  but   aimed at each other.  The metal bands in Karlshamn, where Schuster grew up, were a scene. They performed on stage — but the audience was mainly their friends who played in other bands. If they were anything like the other local scenes I’ve seen, they cha

In 2014 — the only year I have the exact numbers for — 25 percent of the songs that climbed to the top 10 in the US were written or co-written by Swedish songwriters. Over the past decade as whole, the number is somewhere between 10 and 20 percent. No country comes close to exporting as much music in relation to the size of its economy.

Several theories have been proposed, some less plausible than others. The dullness of long, dark winters is a common suggestion. The melodic nature of the language is another. It has also been pointed out that Sweden has the highest concentration of choirs in the world — eight percent of the population are active singers. Then there is th