At the end of the 1960s, a mass movement developed in Sweden to a cultural flow borne by the people, which was referred to as "progg" in the musical. In contrast to other countries, the advanced music was not heard from one or more "target groups" mainly from the small bourgeoisie, but achieved the broad masses and, partly led by communists, a not insignificant danger.
The members of the Hoola Bandoola Band, who were active between 1970 and 1976, were the most famous representatives of the progg.
(Translatable texts on the songs can be found on the Internet)
In 1975 it was mobilized throughout the movement to drive a tennis game of the Swedes in the Davis Cup against Chile - which was then under the military dictatorship of Pinochets - to drive the holiday resort of Båstad to sabotage the game in front of the eyes of all the bon aus. The Hoola Bandoola Band delivered the right fighting song with "Stopa match" ("Stop the game!").
After the band was dissolved, some members continued individually. Guitarist and singer Björn Afzelius wrote some beautiful songs such as "Under Sions Kalla Stjärna" ("Under the cold star of the Zion") in the 80s, which tells of a rescue operation of hundreds of refugee Palestinians across the Mediterranean, because Mossad agents Bleins the ship into the air.
The movement slowly went down from the mid -1970s. Swedish imperialism aimed at suppressing the development of the culture of the people, and particularly took advantage of the Schnulzig, apolitical and English -speaking love songs of the pop group Abba, which made its way back in Sweden through their international success of bourgeois commercial music.
(Lyrics to the latter: https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Nynningen/F%C3%B6r-full-hals/translation/english )
Image: Poster for the sabotage of the tennis match against Chile in 1975 (Those: Baffischerna.se)