Tunes for All?

Morten Michelsen

Description

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.

Sujets

• Dinamarca
• DR (broadcaster)
• Cultural studies
• Media studies
• Denmark
• Radio
• Music

Informations

• Publié par: Aarhus University Press
• Date de parution: 31 décembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9788771847109
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

Extrait

Morten Michelsen, Mads Krogh,
Tunes for All? Music on Danish Radio
Iben Have & Steen Kaargaard Nielsen (eds.)
Tunes for All?
Music on Danish Radio
For almost a century, music on the radio has been an important part of Danish music culture.
Tunes for All? Music on Danish Radio presents the many ways music and radio have co-existed
and interacted from the 1920s until today. Music radio is a complex network of sounds,
technologies and people, and the book spans programmes and channels, presenters and listeners,
music genres and programme genres, stakeholders and different interests primarily in relation
to the all-dominant national broadcasting institution, Danmarks Radio.
In 10 chapters, the authors address this network with an interest in programme content and
production from various media and music perspectives in order to contribute to analytical and
theoretical knowledge about music on the radio. The many cases cover chart shows, morning
radio, live ensembles, automatic music programming and sports radio.
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108645_danish radio_cs6_.indd 4 29/06/18 09:48Contents
11 Foreword
13 Introduction
Music Radio Perspectives
I: Music Radio Research 15
by Morten Michelsen
Radio Studies 16
Radio Studies and Music 18
Early Music Radio Research and Sociolog 19
German Music Radio Research in the 1980s and 1990s 21
Anglo‑American Perspectives: Social History and Cultural Studies 22
Music Radio Anthropolog in France, the US and Scandinavia 24
Music Radio and Multidisciplinarity after the Turn of the Millennium 26
II: Danish Music Radio 29
by The RAMUND research team
Music, Mass Media and Democracy 29
Live Music on the Air (1925‑1962) 32
Records, Profles and P3 (1963‑1991) 38
Flows and Files (1992‑) 41
III: Music Radio Multiplicities 46
by Mads Krogh
A Century … 47
… of Radio … 49
… and Music … 50
… in Denmark 51
108645_danish radio_cs6_.indd 5 29/06/18 09:48Perspectives, Themes, Tracks and Traces 52
Main Themes 53
Concluding Remarks 57
Mads Krogh
67 Non/Linear Radio
Genre, Format and Rationalisation in DR Programming
DR Rationalisation 69
Genre and Format – Categorical Difference? 73
Genre and Format Rationality 76
DR Ir/Rationality 78
Concluding Remarks 85
Katrine Wallevik
91 To Go with the Flow and to Produce It
The P3 Head of Music’s Work in Practice
Hero or Villain? Myths About the Head of Music and DR 93
A Practice Perspective: ANT and Empirical Sensibility 95
The Head: Ideas of ‘Structural Identity’, Corporate Thinking
and Questions of Agency 96
The Head in a Network of Actors 103
The P3 Network of Humans and Things 116
Conclusion 123
Iben Have
129 A Lost Link Between Music and Hosts
The Development of a Morning Music Radio Programme
Go’ Morgen P3: A Classic Morning Music Radio Programme 130
Mapping the Host Constellations 1989‑2015 132
Development of Content in Five Programmes 133
Comparative Observations and Development 136
108645_danish radio_cs6_.indd 6 29/06/18 09:48Familiarity, Moods and Everyday Life 139
Global Competition and ‘Radiotised’ Audio Culture 143
Appendix 149
Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær
157 Oscillations, Interruptions and Interphonic Gearings
On Music in Studio-Based Sports Radio
Sports, Radio and Music 160
The Assortment of Playlist Tracks 163
The Placements of Playlist Tracks 166
The Introduction, Interruption and Ending of Playlist Tracks 172
Conclusions: On the ‘Grammar’ and Modes of Listening 175
Appendix 182
Kristine Ringsager
187 Presenting a World of Music
Musical Diversity and Cosmopolitan Practices
Within the Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Musical Globalisation, Cosmopolitan Awareness and the Agency
of Radio Presenters 189
Broadcasting Ethnomusicolog: The Case of Poul Rovsing Olsen 191
A Popular ‘Musical Missionary’: The Case of Ole Reitov 197
Embedding the World: The Case of Sveta Rubin 203
In Closing 209
Henrik Smith‑Sivertsen
213 When the Hit Parade(s) Hit Denmark
The Pre‑History – Hit Parades in Europe 215
Teenagers and Hit Parades 218
DR Hit Parades 1962‑1968 225
Conclusion 237
108645_danish radio_cs6_.indd 7 29/06/18 09:48Anja Mølle Lindelof
241 Why Do Broadcasting Corporations Have Orchestras?
Understanding the Production Mentality of DR Through
the Case of the Danish National Chamber Orchestra
Live Music on Air – More than a Necessity 242
What Is a Radio Orchestra? 244
Questioning the Existence of an Orchestra – The History of RUO 246the Role of Live Music Production in a ‘Modern Media
House’ 255
Steen Kaargaard Nielsen
259 The Cautionary Tale of Emil Holm and
the Gramophone
Controversial(ised) Uses of Recorded Music and Music
Recording in Danish Radio Broadcasting Before the Second
World War
Gramophone Music at Last 261
DR and the 1931 Debate on ‘Living Music’ Versus ‘Mechanical Music’ 264
Holm in Defence of His Gramophone Programmes 268
Unoffcial In‑House Music Recording 272
Offcial In‑House Music Recording During the Gramophone War 277
In Conclusion: A Missed Opportunity? 279
Charlotte Rørdam Larsen
283 Radio, Music and the Provinces
The Danish State Broadcasting Corporation’s Creation
of Musical Provinces
A Radio for All? 284
Odense Listeners Positioned in the Space of Places 286
The Battle of Places: When Aarhus Got Its Own Orchestra 291
The Periphery as a Space for Old, Graceful Memories 298
108645_danish radio_cs6_.indd 8 29/06/18 09:48Radio Programmes as a Space of Places: A True Jutlander Comes
to Town 302
Conclusion 305
Morten Michelsen
309 Negotiating Musical Hierarchies
Music Programming and Genre on Inter-War Danish Radio
Musical Genres and Hierarchies 312
Public Debates on Musical Hierarchies and Genres 315
Genres According to DR Discourse 318
DR Programming Practices 324
Balancing Popular and Serious Music 330
Questions of Popularity 332
Compartmentalisation and Cohesion 337
Appendix 342
345 Photos
347 Index
357 Contributors
108645_danish radio_cs6_.indd 9 29/06/18 09:48108645_danish radio_cs6_.indd 10 29/06/18 09:48Foreword
Most scholarly articles and books on music and radio begin with a few sentences
establishing that music has always been extremely important to radio, and Danish
th stmusic radio in the 20 and 21 centuries only proves this point. Music programmes
have taken up about half of the broadcasting time on Danish national radio since its
inception in 1925, and when the amount of DAB specialist channels peaked in the
2000s music accounted for around 80 per cent. Simultaneously, radio as a medium
and radio as an institution has afected Danish musical life in numerous ways. This
intricate state of mutual infuence and intertwined development is the topic of this
collected volume.
The background to this anthology is the research project ‘A Century of Radio and
Music in Denmark. Music Genres, Radio Genres, and Mediatisation’ (RAMUND,
http://ramund.ikk.ku.dk/), which ran from 2013 to 2018 and had 11 members from
four Danish universities and the Royal Danish Library. Among the most important
results are three anthologies. The frst, in Danish, is a popular historical overview of
music and DR (Michelsen et al. [eds.] 2018). The second, this one, presents each
project member’s contribution to the overall project – a total of 10 subprojects spanning
th stthe 20 and 21 centuries. The third reports from an international seminar on how
music radio contributed to the articulation of musical genres and nation-building
around the world. In addition to these anthologies, the project has resulted in a PhD