The chief cultural export of the Finnish town of Oulu is “the Shouting Men’s Choir, which is exactly what it sounds like: 30 men of Oulu in black suits, shouting in harmony. You don’t get that sort of thing down in Geelong, or in Helsinki, for that matter. It is a product of long nights in a town with little to do, a northern sense of humor that revels in the absurd, a high city count in eccentrics, and a lot of vodka.”