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Landscape and Cultural Heritage in Faroese Music Videos
Book chapter

Landscape and Cultural Heritage in Faroese Music Videos

Firouz Gaini, Philip Hayward and Matt Hill
Nordic Music Videos, pp.151-165
Ashgate Screen Music, Routledge, 1st
2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003514008-11

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Abstract

The contemporary music culture of the Faroe Islands shares a number of aspects with both Nordic music culture and with the international anglophone music scene. But the islands are also distinct by virtue of the micro-level of its music scene, in a remote, autonomous territory with only 54,000 residents, and by particular markers of local culture in a significant proportion of the music and music videos produced there. Use of Faroese-language lyrics is one obvious marker, as is the adaptation of traditional ballads and/or dance music in contemporary styles. A number of artists and genres have also been represented in videos that feature traditional performance practices and costumes and/or iconic Faroese landscapes. The chapter will examine videos made for performers working within Faroese folk traditions, such as Eivør Pálsdóttir, and acts working in folk-fusion and Viking Metal genres, such as Hamferð, Xperiment and Týr, along with one-off musical projects such as Elin Brimheim Heinesen's orchestrated arrangement of her father's poem “Sóleyan lýsir um fløtur” (2022).

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