Next concert with Hotel Desperado

My next gig with Hotel Desperado is on Saturday, January 26th sometime after 18:00. We are playing at Ferie for Fattigrøve (which starts at 14:00) which is located in the Støberiet (Medborgerhuset på Blågårdsplads). Other bands playing are Raggarpack, Mission One, The Good – The Bad, Daniel og Dollars and Pandemonium Steelband. But if you…Continue reading Next concert with Hotel Desperado

Copyright and youtube

The popular music scholar Philip Tagg has compiled information on how to file a counter claim if one of your movies is removed by youtube due to copyright complaints which are unwarranted. It can be found here: YouTube Counter Claims, etc.. The page also has a link to the article “Copyright versus the democratic right…Continue reading Copyright and youtube

next gig with hotel desperado

my next gig with hotel desperado is friday, september 21st at verdensklubben (Krunch, Øresundsvej 14 ). cc: 50dkk/30dkk (members). more info at www.myspace.com/hoteldesperado or www.verdensklubben.dk

Book: Rock Culture in Liverpool

I just finished a book I should have read a long time ago: Sara Cohen’s “Rock Culture in Liverpool – Popular Music in the Making”, Oxford 1991. This book is one of the first ethnographies of local popular music production / a local popular music scene – and a very detailed one as well. Cohen…Continue reading Book: Rock Culture in Liverpool

Article: Pop and the Nation-State: towards a theorisation

I spent the last week reading and reviewing “Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location” edited by Ian Biddle and the late Vanessa Knights (Ashgate 2007). One article which was quoted in the introduction was Martin Cloonan’s “Pop and the Nation-State: towards a theorisation” (Popular Music 18:2 1999, p. 193-207). In his article Cloonan…Continue reading Article: Pop and the Nation-State: towards a theorisation

upcoming gig: salon kommunisten

my next gig with hotel desperado is on saturday, mai 26th (sometime between 17-22) at salon kommunisten (studiestræde 24 in the centre of copenhagen).

upcoming concert: may 1st with hotel desperado

i just played a gig yesterday (saturday) with “hotel desperado” and got another one playing with them on may first in fællesparken (copenhagen) at 17:00 (at the tent of “enhedslisten”).

Online version of “Music Media Multiculture”

The book “Music Media Multiculture – Changing Musicscapes” by Dan Lundberg, Krister Malm and Owe Ronström can be accessed online at old.visarkiv.se/online/online_mmm.html

Book: Global repertoires

I spent today browsing the book “Global Repertoires – Popular music within and beyond the transnational music industry” edited by Andreas Gebesmair and Alfred Smudits (Ashgate 2001). Based on papers from a conference on Music and Globalization in Vienna in 1999 the book is divided in three parts. The first part focuses on the strategies…Continue reading Book: Global repertoires