Talk:Music of Denmark

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[edit] Contemporary Danish music

Contemporary Danish musicHaving read the article about the music of Denmark, and being from Denmark myself, I must admit I felt a little disappointed that there was no mentioning of the importance of the Danish language in contemporary Danish music. Living abroad I am always amazed to find just how many Danish-speaking, rather than English-speaking, songs hit the top of the charts back home.

This characteristic, it should be made clear, cannot be ascribed to any kind of nationalist trend nor to any deliberate isolationist policy but has more to do with longstanding traditions of rock, pop, jazz and other forms of contemporary music in schools and in society in general. For example, rock music has long been part of education in the special Danish "folkehøjskole" (people's high school a century old tradition aiming to broaden the scope of education beyond primary and secondary levels). And Danish rock songs are often incorporated into Church ceremonies.

Artists, furthermore, enjoy both government and private support through various funding schemes and fairly large and internationnaly renowned festivals, such as "Roskildefestivalen" (the Roskilde Festival), which features a number of top international artists and has an audience of more than 70.000, the "Copenhagen Jazz Festival", a two-week city-wide event with thousands of free jazz concerts taking place in the summer and attracting the best of the world's jazz artists, and, on a smaller scale, "Grøn Koncert" (Green Concert), an annual charitable rock concert sponsored by the Carlsberg breweries.

Moreover, government sponsored (hence advertisement free) tv and radio channels are platforms for a more varied contemporary music scene than found on commercial networks. Try, for example, tuning in on the netradio services provided by DR P3 (DR being "Danmarks Radio", equivalent to BBC).

For any comments feel free to write to sortepersen AT aol DOT com. Thanks, Jacob.

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I for one would love it if you could expand the article with some information of this kind, as it was exactly what I came to this page to find out. — Trilobite (Talk) 3 July 2005 18:53 (UTC)

[edit] Aqua in both Rock and Pop

Aqua are named in the first sentence of both the rock and pop category. I think they should be removed from the Rock section; their music isn't rock-like at all... 82.32.65.149