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Thursday, January 29, 2026

Icelandic Popular Music in the 1970s

Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen charts the birth of a distinctive Icelandic music identity shaped by cultural movements

PHOTO 2 70S Spilverk Þjóðanna

Spilverk þjóðanna, practising sometime in the 1970s

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