The digital archiving of music at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation

History, ideals, taxonomy

Authors

  • Andreas Helles Pedersen Lund University, Sweden

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58698/stm-sjm.v104i.8893

Keywords:

Digital music archives, The Danish Broadcasting Corporation, music history, metadata, taxonomy, music platforms, chronologies, public service

Abstract

In this article I offer a history of the digital music archive at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). Within the last decade, DR has complemented their music archive with an in-house digital music platform called /Diskoteket,1 on which I see not only a lively and educational space for making contextualized searches in regard to recorded and commercially released music, but also a determinative discourse on music information. As a conceptual point of departure I investigate the supposition that DR has an institutionalized understanding of music history, and building on this supposition I aim to throw light on the following question: how can an institutionalized music history at DR be traced in online music presentations?

Author Biography

Andreas Helles Pedersen, Lund University, Sweden

Andreas Helles Pedersen is a PhD student in musicology at Lund University. His research interests span from music historiography and listening practices, over cultural theory and aesthetics, to media philosophy and sound in film. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary project that examines music historical understanding in a world of streaming and digital music archives.

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Published

2022-12-01

How to Cite

Helles Pedersen, A. (2022). The digital archiving of music at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation: History, ideals, taxonomy. Svensk Tidskrift för Musikforskning Swedish Journal of Music Research, 104, 41–76. https://doi.org/10.58698/stm-sjm.v104i.8893

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Vol. 104 (2022)

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