Note: Funding Information: This work was supported by the Society for Swedish Literature in Finland. The starting point for this special journal was the symposium “Music, Digitalisation and Democracy,” which was organized December 13-14, 2018, at Åbo Akademi University, by the research project The impact of digitalisation on minority music: Finland-Swedish music culture as case study and the Nordic branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-Norden). Funding Information: This work was supported by the Society for Swedish Literature in Finland. The starting point for this special journal was the symposium “Music, Digitalisation and Democracy,” which was organized December 13-14, 2018, at Åbo Akademi University, by the research project The impact of digitalisation on minority music: Finland-Swedish music culture as case study and the Nordic branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-Norden).