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In ten original essays, Danish music and media scholars discuss
aspects of music on the radio from the 1920s until today.
Understanding music radio as a distributed phenomenon or as a
multiplicity, the authors draw upon anthropology, cultural studies
and media studies along with sociological and historiographical
theory. The intention is to further develop interdisciplinary
approaches that may grasp the complex interrelations between radio
as an institution and as practices on the one hand and music,
musical practices, and musical life on the other. The essays'
examples and cases are all related to the Danish Broadcasting
Corporation (DR) and offer a music radio production perspective.
They span the period from when broadcast music was only live to
today where almost all of it is prerecorded and digitized. Some of
the essays approach broad topics like early music radio's
contributions to the regulation of national centres and
peripheries, the debates on music radio as mechanical music, and
the general changes in music repertoires and in the status of the
institution's live ensembles. Music radio's roles as gatekeeper
through automatic music programming are discussed in several
articles as are the many ways music genres and radio formats
interact. Some of the authors turn to detailed analyses at
programme level in order to explain aspects of modern music radio
and to suggest analytical models. The essays come with an
introduction consisting of an extended overview of international
music radio studies since the 1930s, and overview of the
development of Danish music radio, and a theoretical preamble.
Rock Criticism from the Beginning is a wide-ranging exploration of
the rise and development of rock criticism in Britain and the
United States from the 1960s to the present. It chronicles the
evolution of a new form of journalism, and the course by which
writing on rock was transformed into a respected field of cultural
production. The authors explore the establishment of magazines from
Crawdaddy! and Rolling Stone to The Source, and from Melody Maker
and New Musical Express to The Wire, while investigating the
careers of well-known music critics like Robert Christgau, Greil
Marcus, and Lester Bangs in the U.S., and Nik Cohn, Paul Morley,
and Jon Savage in the U.K., to name just a few. While much has been
written on the history of rock, this Bourdieu-inspired book is the
first to offer a look at the coming of age of rock journalism, and
the critics that opened up a whole new kind of discourse on popular
music.
Why is music so important to radio? This anthology explores the
ways in which musical life and radio interact, overlap and have
influenced each other for nearly a century. One of music radio's
major functions is to help build smaller or larger communities by
continuously offering broadcast music as a means to create identity
and senses of belonging. Music radio also helps identify and
develop musical genres in collaboration with listeners and the
music industry by mediating and by gatekeeping. Focusing on music
from around the world, Music Radio discusses what music radio is
and why or for what purposes it is produced. Each essay illuminates
the intricate cultural processes associated with music and radio
and suggests ways of working with such complexities.
Text in English, Danish & German. On 19 April 2008, professor
John D Bergsagel celebrated his 80th birthday, and three weeks
later -- on 8 May -- Professor Heinrich W Schwab attained the age
of 70. The Department of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen
and The Royal Library have decided to acknowledge the excellence of
these two scholars by a double Festschrift, "A due". Both have been
working at the Music Department of the University of Copenhagen and
have collaborated with The Royal Library on various projects. This
publication contains contributions from 44 colleagues, who thus --
in topics covering the period from the Middle Ages to the present
day -- give their voice in the honouring of the two scholars for
their musical scholarship. As it may be seen from the table of
contents, the publication covers a broad range both in time and in
topics, which are all included in the scholarly sphere of Bergsagel
and Schwab.
Why is music so important to radio? This anthology explores the
ways in which musical life and radio interact, overlap and have
influenced each other for nearly a century. One of music radio's
major functions is to help build smaller or larger communities by
continuously offering broadcast music as a means to create identity
and senses of belonging. Music radio also helps identify and
develop musical genres in collaboration with listeners and the
music industry by mediating and by gatekeeping. Focusing on music
from around the world, Music Radio discusses what music radio is
and why or for what purposes it is produced. Each essay illuminates
the intricate cultural processes associated with music and radio
and suggests ways of working with such complexities.
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