Prologue: On background, aims and terminology -- On methodology and research of music history. The concept of the avant-garde and its problematic in the context of Finnish electronic music -- On the aims of music historical research and the status of electronic music in Finnish academic history research -- On the analysis of the historical texts and microhistorical approach of the research -- Research questions -- Distinguishing the sources and the source critical approach -- Data collection and analysis -- Radio art, advancing sound technology and international influences as the initiators for the development of early Finnish electronic music. The development of early radio and recording technology and the birth of radio music -- The first news on tape music and early demonstrations of electronic music -- Yleisradio in the 1950s and the necessity of changes in sound producion -- From illusionary sound effects of radiophonics towards the aesthetics of electronic music -- Electronic music in media during the 1950s and early 1960s -- The composition environments of electronic music in the early 1960s --The arrival of early electronic music instruments -- On international activity and the leading authors of electronic music -- Mapping out directions in Finnish electronic music. Martti Vuorenjuuri -- Kari Rydman -- Bengt Johansson -- Usko Meriläinen -- Erkki Kurenniemi -- Seppo Mustonen -

- Henrik Otto Donner -- Erkki Salmenhaara -- Reijo Jyrkiäinen -- Ilkka Kuusisto -- Pehr Henrik Nordgren -- M. A. Numminen -- Gottfrid Gräsbeck -- Epilogue

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