Mellem eksotisme og musiketnologi:Musikalske repræsentationer af Grønland og Indien i europæisk radio i mellemkrigstiden

• Published in: Journal of Radio & Audio Media
• Main Author: Michelsen, Morten
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: musikradio; Danmarks Radio; musikalsk repræsentation; music radio; musical representation; imaginative work; audible empire; colonialism; programme analysis; Greenland; Grønland
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/between-exoticism-and-ethnomusicology(35437997-04d0-4712-9b6a-c7132d63cc5b).html; https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2021.2019744; https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/335049711/Between_Exoticism_and_Ethnomusicology_Musical_Representations_of_Greenland_and_India_on_European_Interwar_Radio_Accepted_manuscript.pdf

In this article, I investigate how colonized cultures were presented to “home” radio audiences through sound (music, speech, sound montages) during the inter-war years. The focus is on how a small group of broadcasts containing musical representations of the colonies of Greenland and India afforded the imaginative work to Danish and British radio listeners in relation to the spatiality and otherness of distant peoples and locations. I suggest a typology of four modes of musical representation in broadcasts reaching from the European tradition of musical exoticism to the use of recordings of indigenous music.