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Listening from within a Digital Music Archive : Metadata, Sensibilities, and Music Histories in the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's Music Archive

Pedersen, Andreas Helles LU (2023) 29.
Abstract
This thesis examines how digital music archives can facilitate different versions of the history of recorded music. It argues that digital technologies and metadata enable coexisting historical narratives of recorded music that move across time and musical genre, and that can cross geographical and cultural space. The study sees a correlation between archival strategies and the presentation of recorded music. It exemplifies this by examining the development and structuration of the digital music archive of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). The thesis amplifies that the presentation of recorded music on DR’s in-house digital music platform /Diskoteket can impact how the music is perceived. It is asserted that music streaming... (More)
This thesis examines how digital music archives can facilitate different versions of the history of recorded music. It argues that digital technologies and metadata enable coexisting historical narratives of recorded music that move across time and musical genre, and that can cross geographical and cultural space. The study sees a correlation between archival strategies and the presentation of recorded music. It exemplifies this by examining the development and structuration of the digital music archive of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). The thesis amplifies that the presentation of recorded music on DR’s in-house digital music platform /Diskoteket can impact how the music is perceived. It is asserted that music streaming experiences are directed by imaginaries of the history of recorded music, which can be guided by metadata. As this study is the first to have an explicit focus on DR’s music archive, it also offers a historical perspective alongside its more practical and technological analyses. The thesis traces the inner workings of DR’s digital music archive and assesses how its architecture makes for multiple and parallel histories of recorded music. It concludes that formations of metadata have the capability to deepen and change the perception and reception of music releases. The thesis argues that metadata give structure to DR’s digital music archive while also giving it meaning and purpose, and it suggests that this applies to all types of digital music archives. (Less)
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author
supervisor
opponent
  • professor Kyle Devine, Universitetet i Oslo
organization
publishing date
type
Thesis
publication status
published
subject
keywords
Digital cultures, Digital archives, Metadata, Historiography, Aesthetics, Critical thinking, Music history, Infrastructure
volume
29
pages
298 pages
publisher
Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lunds universitet
defense location
LUX C126
defense date
2023-05-26 13:00:00
ISBN
978-91-987325-1-1
978-91-987325-0-4
project
Listening from within a Digital Music Archive: Metadata, Sensibilities, and Music Histories in the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's Music Archive
language
English
LU publication?
yes
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9f5bc172-bfef-475a-9a6c-271996a5e49a
date added to LUP
2023-04-27 15:18:48
date last changed
2023-04-28 13:15:39
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  author       = {{Pedersen, Andreas Helles}},
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  publisher    = {{Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lunds universitet}},
  school       = {{Lund University}},
  title        = {{Listening from within a Digital Music Archive : Metadata, Sensibilities, and Music Histories in the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's Music Archive}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/145395347/Andreas_Helles_Pedersen_HELA2.pdf}},
  volume       = {{29}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}