Swedish Folk Music in the Twenty-First Century: On the Nature of Tradition in a Folkless Nation, (Hardcover)

Swedish Folk Music in the Twenty-First Century: On the Nature of Tradition in a Folkless Nation, by David Kaminsky, examines the struggle of present-day Swedish folk musicians and dancers to maintain the cultural currency of their genre while simultaneously challenging the historical fallacies and nineteenth-century romantic nationalism upon which that currency was originally based.

In applying the term "folk music" to the music they were collecting, early nineteenth- century Swedish folklorists saturated it with the cultural currency of romantic nationalism.