Why is Sweden so successful in music? Scenes, it nurtures scenes.

Henrik Karlsson, Scene creation engines and apprenticeships, Escaping Flatland, Mar. 21, 2023.

After introductory material based on a story about specific musicians, Johan Schuster, Max Martin, and others, Karlston gets down to thinking:

But the most important factor behind Sweden's outsized success seems to be that Sweden by accident created unusually good conditions for musical scene creation.

What is a scene? It is a group of people who are producing work in public but aimed at each other. The metal bands in Karlshamn, where Schuster grew up, were a scene. They performed on stage - but the audience ...