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The Zorn Trials and the Jante Law

On Shining Musically in the Land of Moderation

Bibliographic Data

ID4000623
AuthorsDavid Kaminsky, David A Kaminsky (0000-0002-6515-8023, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume39
Pages27-49
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueYearbook for Traditional Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0740-1558 • E-ISSN: 2304-3857
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0740155800006652
OpenAlexW1445817869
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose called these commandments "the Jante' Law," so-named for his protagonist's fictional Danish home-town in the semi-autobiographical novelA Fugitive Crosses His Tracks(orig. pub. 1933; English trans., 1936:77-78). Over the years this ironic credo of elder-dominated communal living has expanded and acquired a special resonance with respect to Swedish cultural self-image. Today in Sweden, the Jante Law occupies a place in the popular imagination as a descriptor of a specifically Scandinavian attitude, a subtly enforced culture of moderation and humility

Aesthetics · Art · Danish · Humility · Linguistics · Literature · Moderation · Norwegian · Political science · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Educational Sciences · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works2
Citations per year0,14
Citation span2012 - 2015 (4)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2
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