Gaffa (magazine) explained

GAFFA
Editor:Sidsel Thomassen
Editor Title:Editor-in-Chief
Previous Editor:Peter Ramsdal
Staff Writer:Ole Rosenstand Svidt
Frequency:Monthly
Paid Circulation:3,500 (2009)[1]
Unpaid Circulation:55,000
Category:Music magazine
Company:Gaffa A/S
Firstdate:September 1983
Based:Århus, Denmark

Gaffa (stylized as GAFFA) is a free Nordic music magazine with local editions in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Gaffa is 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 name gaffa comes from gaffer tape, with the magazine's stated intention of "binding the different parts of the music community together".[3]

History and profile

Gaffa has 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 2008 Gaffa launched GAFFA live, a concert overview for Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In 2009 Gaffa was launched in Sweden, GAFFA Sweden, and in 2011 in Norway, GAFFA Norway.

In April 2006, Gaffa launched a user-written music encyclopedia, GAFFApedia, as a subsection of its website.[7] Based on MediaWiki, it is similar to Wikipedia and covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike licence.[8] [9] GAFFApedia was closed in 2010.

GAFFA Awards

The GAFFA Awards (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 through GAFFA Priset.[13] In 2012, GAFFA Norway similarly established its version of the awards.[14]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: GAFFA Media » GAFFA magasin. Gaffa. da. 3 June 2009.
  2. Web site: Foran stærkt felt: Hjalmer vinder stor Gaffa-pris. Fyens Stiftstidende. da. 7 March 2019. 28 December 2019.
  3. September 1983. Velkommen til Gaffa. Gaffa. 2. da. 3 June 2009. 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.
  4. G Gudmundsson. U Lindberg. Critical negotiations: rock criticism in the Nordic countries. Popular Music History. 1 December 2006. 1. 3. 10.1558/pomh.2006.1.3.241.
  5. Web site: GAFFA Media. Gaffa. 3 June 2009. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090207022857/http://www.gaffa.dk/media/en. 7 February 2009.
  6. Web site: GAFFAs arkiv på nettet. 11 December 2008. Musik Bibliotek. da . 30 June 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091225081758/http://www.musikbibliotek.dk/26721/compiled. 25 December 2009.
  7. Web site: Pelle Sonne Lohmann. GAFFApedia dækker dansk musik på allerbedste vis . https://archive.today/20120910144941/http://www.musikbibliotek.dk/23682/recompiled. dead. 10 September 2012. Musik Bibliotek. da. 30 June 2009.
  8. Web site: GAFFApedia:Ophavsret . Gaffa. da. 11 July 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927030034/http://www.gaffa.dk/pedia/index.php/GAFFApedia%3AOphavsret. 27 September 2007.
  9. Web site: Danske Creative Commons projekter. Creative Commons. da. 30 June 2009.
  10. Web site: Gaffa-Prisen: Skandinaviens største musikmagasin dropper Odense som værtsby til prisfest. Fyens Stiftstidende. da. 22 December 2019. 28 December 2019.
  11. Web site: Dansk rockband er ustoppeligt: Nu vinder de endnu flere priser. DR. da. March 8, 2019. December 28, 2019.
  12. Web site: GAFFA-Prisen er uddelt. Gaffa. da. 6 January 2010. 6 February 2019. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190206154857/https://gaffa.dk/nyhed/36370. 6 February 2019.
  13. Web site: De belönades med Gaffa-priset 2010. Expressen. sv. 12 January 2011. 28 December 2019.
  14. Web site: Nominert til Gaffa-prisen. Trønder-Avisa. no. 30 November 2012. 28 December 2019.

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