Sweden: the cold Scandinavian country known for vikings, the Swedish chef from The Muppets, and Ikea. Sweden has unique traditional music, an especially contemporary education system, and an abundance of holidays and festivals. Sweden is known for some of it’s famous opera singers and excelling in educating their students. Especially their known for their style of music. In Sweden many different kinds of music are popular like pop, waltz, and traditional music. In Sweden traditional wind instruments are prominent. Some notable instruments are the fiddle, accordion, and the Nyckelharpa. The Nyckelharpa is a string instrument, similar to a fiddle but it has keys. One popular children's song is
Små Grodorna (translates to the little frogs …show more content…
A band called John Moose released an album in an app that used a type of GPS feature that tracks the location of the person using it. The person could only listen to the songs on the album if they were in a forest. The band decided to make it like that in reference to the songs on the album since the album is about a man who decides to leave society and live in the woods (Waxman). Besides John Moose some other Swedish artists have become famous in other parts of the world. Some of the most popular in America are the Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Icona Pop, and
Tove Lo. Another well known Swedish band, maybe the most well known of any
Swedish artist is ABBA. The wrote the song Dancing Queen in 1976. Dancing Queen was number 1 in 18 countries and in the top 10 in 8 more, and is still popular …show more content…
The Rolling Stones listed it as one of the greatest songs of all time in 2011 (Top 40 Charts). In Swedish history two of the world's most famous opera singers were Swedes. They are Jenny Lind, best known for her performance entitled Der Freischütz (or the marksman in english). The other is Birget Nilsen. She is best known for being named for a prize awarded by the Birgit Nilsson foundation every two to three years to a concert opera singer, classical or opera conductor, or an opera company. The first winner of the prize was a Spanish tenor named Placido Domingo, who won 1 million dollars. Additionally in 2014 the National Bank of Sweden put her portrait on the 500 kronor (kronor is swedish currency; 500 kronor is worth 60 USD) (World Book). Overall Swedish artists have made lots of different kinds of music that have been popular all around the world.
The type of education in Sweden is considered unalike from some other countries education systems. For example, in 1842 education was made compulsory; which was earlier than most other countries. Over the years the offical years for the education standards of Swedish have been established. Students must attend school from 7-16 (Lands and People. 40). Some kids start schooling from start school from the age of 1. Förskola (preschool) is provided by the government for children
Små Grodorna (translates to the little frogs …show more content…
A band called John Moose released an album in an app that used a type of GPS feature that tracks the location of the person using it. The person could only listen to the songs on the album if they were in a forest. The band decided to make it like that in reference to the songs on the album since the album is about a man who decides to leave society and live in the woods (Waxman). Besides John Moose some other Swedish artists have become famous in other parts of the world. Some of the most popular in America are the Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Icona Pop, and
Tove Lo. Another well known Swedish band, maybe the most well known of any
Swedish artist is ABBA. The wrote the song Dancing Queen in 1976. Dancing Queen was number 1 in 18 countries and in the top 10 in 8 more, and is still popular …show more content…
The Rolling Stones listed it as one of the greatest songs of all time in 2011 (Top 40 Charts). In Swedish history two of the world's most famous opera singers were Swedes. They are Jenny Lind, best known for her performance entitled Der Freischütz (or the marksman in english). The other is Birget Nilsen. She is best known for being named for a prize awarded by the Birgit Nilsson foundation every two to three years to a concert opera singer, classical or opera conductor, or an opera company. The first winner of the prize was a Spanish tenor named Placido Domingo, who won 1 million dollars. Additionally in 2014 the National Bank of Sweden put her portrait on the 500 kronor (kronor is swedish currency; 500 kronor is worth 60 USD) (World Book). Overall Swedish artists have made lots of different kinds of music that have been popular all around the world.
The type of education in Sweden is considered unalike from some other countries education systems. For example, in 1842 education was made compulsory; which was earlier than most other countries. Over the years the offical years for the education standards of Swedish have been established. Students must attend school from 7-16 (Lands and People. 40). Some kids start schooling from start school from the age of 1. Förskola (preschool) is provided by the government for children