ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides examples illustrating the development of popular music in Sweden from the days of jazz onwards, and the shift from jazz to rock as the predominant youth music. It discusses the 1970s Music Movement and the festival circuit of Sweden emanating from that, and about Swedish troubadours joining the left-wing movement in the late 1960s. The book points out the fact that several of the leading musicians and song writers of this movement had started out playing jazz. One of the early leading figures and influential artists of the Music Movement fitting into this description is singer-songwriter Mikael Wiehe, born April 10, 1946. Wiehe has been active as a musician since the late 1950s. As a child he took piano lessons for a short time, but on his main instruments, guitar and saxophone, he is an autodidact.
