Gaffa(magazine)
 August 2009 issue | |
| Editor-in-Chief | Sidsel Thomassen |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Peter Ramsdal |
| Staff writers | Ole Rosenstand Svidt |
| Categories | Music magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Paid circulation | 3,500 (2009)[1] |
| Unpaid circulation | 55,000[1] |
| First issue | September 1983 |
| Company | Gaffa A/S |
| Country |
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| Based in | Århus,Denmark |
| Language | |
| Website | gaffa |
Gaffa(stylized asGAFFA) is a freeNordicmusic magazinewith local editions inDenmark,Norway,andSweden.Gaffais Denmark's largest and oldest music magazine. It has been published since 1983 and has 320,000 print readers and 750,000 online readers each month.[2]
The namegaffacomes fromgaffer tape,with the magazine's stated intention of "binding the different parts of themusic communitytogether ".[3]
History and profile[edit]
Gaffahas been published on a monthly basis since 1983.[4]The magazine is distributed to places such as educational institutions,record shops,libraries and cafés, as well as a small number to paying subscribers.[5]It features music news and notes, interviews, album reviews and upcoming concert schedules.
Gaffa's website, GAFFA.dk, was established in 1996.[1]Since December 2008 all back issues of the magazine are accessible online free of charge.[6]
In 2008Gaffalaunched GAFFA live, a concert overview for Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In 2009Gaffawas launched in Sweden,GAFFASweden, and in 2011 in Norway,GAFFANorway.
In April 2006,Gaffalaunched a user-written music encyclopedia, GAFFApedia, as a subsection of its website.[7]Based onMediaWiki,it is similar toWikipediaand covered by theCreative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alikelicence.[8][9]GAFFApedia was closed in 2010.
GAFFAAwards[edit]
TheGAFFAAwards (Danish:GAFFA-Prisen) are an annual event created in 1991 to hand out prizes for music achievements. Since 2010, the awards have been held at a large gala show in Copenhagen, in Odense (2017-2019) and in Aarhus Musikhuset since 2020.[10][11]Categories include Album of the Year, Foreign Album of the Year, Singer of the Year and Foreign Singer of the Year.[12]
Since 2010,GAFFA’s Swedish readers have also voted for and celebrated their favourite artists throughGAFFAPriset.[13]In 2012,GAFFANorway similarly established its version of the awards.[14]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^abc"GAFFA Media » GAFFA magasin".Gaffa(in Danish).Retrieved3 June2009.
- ^"Foran stærkt felt: Hjalmer vinder stor Gaffa-pris".Fyens Stiftstidende(in Danish). 7 March 2019.Retrieved28 December2019.
- ^"Velkommen til Gaffa".Gaffa(in Danish): 2. September 1983.Retrieved3 June2009.
Vores idé med bladet er, at det skal have samme effekt som "GAFFA-tape": at få de forskellige grene af musikmiljøet til at hænge sammen
- ^U Lindberg; G Gudmundsson (1 December 2006). "Critical negotiations: rock criticism in the Nordic countries".Popular Music History.1(3).doi:10.1558/pomh.2006.1.3.241.
- ^"GAFFA Media".Gaffa.Archived fromthe originalon 7 February 2009.Retrieved3 June2009.
- ^"GAFFAs arkiv på nettet".Musik Bibliotek(in Danish). 11 December 2008. Archived fromthe originalon 25 December 2009.Retrieved30 June2009.
- ^Pelle Sonne Lohmann."GAFFApedia dækker dansk musik på allerbedste vis".Musik Bibliotek(in Danish). Archived fromthe originalon 10 September 2012.Retrieved30 June2009.
- ^"GAFFApedia:Ophavsret".Gaffa(in Danish). Archived fromthe originalon 27 September 2007.Retrieved11 July2009.
- ^"Danske Creative Commons projekter".Creative Commons(in Danish).Retrieved30 June2009.
- ^"Gaffa-Prisen: Skandinaviens største musikmagasin dropper Odense som værtsby til prisfest".Fyens Stiftstidende(in Danish). 22 December 2019.Retrieved28 December2019.
- ^"Dansk rockband er ustoppeligt: Nu vinder de endnu flere priser".DR(in Danish). 8 March 2019.Retrieved28 December2019.
- ^"GAFFA-Prisen er uddelt".Gaffa(in Danish). 6 January 2010.Archivedfrom the original on 6 February 2019.Retrieved6 February2019.
- ^"De belönades med Gaffa-priset 2010".Expressen(in Swedish). 12 January 2011.Retrieved28 December2019.
- ^"Nominert til Gaffa-prisen".Trønder-Avisa(in Norwegian). 30 November 2012.Retrieved28 December2019.