The purpose of this paper is to examine different methods for organisation and retrieval of pop and rock Music recordings, and the problems concerned with this organisation. The focus is the question whether values towards pop and rock Music influence the organisation of Music in major Swedish record collections. As a background for this discussion, the study also discusses how Music is organised in these collections, and what kind of problems are associated with their organisation. Also included in the paper is a minor investigation of how problems with the organisation of pop and rock Music are dealt with in library and information science, and how values towards pop and rock Music are dealt with in society in general. The main focus of the study, however, is an empirical study of how values towards pop and rock Music manifest themselves in the pop and rock organisation of six Swedish institutions with major collections of Music recordings.

This paper examines the professional role of the Music journalist and how it has been affected by the expansion of the Internet. The study aims to examine  the profession's outlook and how professional Music journalists are working to reach the public with interesting information, despite the fact that the audience of today often can be first to deliver the news. Through qualitative research interviews with three current Music journalists the professional role and its development is examined. Based on theories and previous research on journalism, how the media communicates and its importance to society, what it is to be a Music journalist and the spread of digitization and the impact of file sharing the results are analyzed. The conclusions of the study are that it isn?t a profession that is disappearing but rather a profession that is working towards a new future.

Title: How do Music students with different genre backgrounds perceive the same Music? In this paper I report a study about how Music students with different genre background perceive the same Music. I let twentyone classical Music upper secondary school pupils and twentyone rock Music upper secondary school pupils listen to ten short Music pieces of different character and styles. While listening, they were asked to answer four questions about which instruments they could perceive, what they could tell about pulse, rhythm and beat in the Music, which component they thought was the most important in the piece and what word they thought best described the feeling of the piece. All four questions had to be answered for each piece of Music to facilitate analysis of differences connected to genre background in those answers.

Title: Music video: Twelvestep ? DownInside Made by: Benjamin Bondesson Christian Edgren Tutor: Silvio Ocasic Course admin: Peter Ekdahl Purpose: To create a Music video that we can stand, that challenges us in the creative process. And to help a struggling band with another medium to spread their Music. Goal:We intend to create a great product that is demanding and educational to us. Especially when it comes to cooperation and editing/post production.

Music has a role to play in every country and every culture. Sweden today is a country whith many different cultures, religions and Music genres. The purpose of this investigation is to study how immigrants youths profit from Music education on the basis of Music teachers' perspectives. Questions at issue are: are there immigrant children/ youths who can not take part in Music education? Have the students' religions any importance? Do the parents question the offered education? Is there more opposition to some specific kind of Music? Are teachers avoiding to present some Music? Can Music education help the immigrant youths to form their identities? I have used questionnaires and I have made five interviews.

The purpose of this thesis was to get a deeper understanding of why and how companies work with background Music in event marketing and also how it can affect on companies image. In our research a case study was conducted and based on interviews with four respondents who all have experience working with background Music throughout their careers. The study has shown that background Music can be a very effective promotion tool in event marketing when it's used in the right way. Furthermore this study has shown that companies consciously use background Music to enhance the experience and emotional affect the attendant through choice of Music and the Music can affect companies' image. Event marketing combined with background Music is an effective tool for companies to generate positive associations to image and to reach their target group when right Music is correctly conducted..

The purpose of the master thesis was to reflect and analyze Music library activities and policies in the public libraries in the area around the city of Borås, in the south-western part of Sweden. With this thesis I also wanted to look at the interaction between the public libraries, the Music school and the Music associations in the same area. To investigate these matters, qualitative method was used in the form of interviews with seven librarians from seven different libraries and five representatives of different local Music organizations. Other methods used were observations and source studies. The literature used discusses the role of the Music department of public libraries as well as that of a Music librarian working in a public library.

This study is made in order to see how Music teachers pedagogic design their teaching from a semiotic design theoretical perspective. A survey was done in a study to see how the Music college students experienced their Music theory teaching. This was followed by an observation of two different Music theory teachers teaching Music theory and with subsequent interviews. One teacher taught Music theory at a swedish non-compulsory School of Arts, Kulturskola, and the other Music teacher taught at an independent adult education college. The study's questionnaire, observation and interview revealed patterns of teaching, probably largely due to the teaching tradition.

The aim of this paper is to examine how The Swedish Library Classification System, also known as the ?SAB-system?, has classified popular Music. The investigation is limited to the classification category of ?Yx Jazz, Rock and Popular Music? within the SAB-system. The development of this category is studied.

The purpose of the present study has been to explore if there is an agreement between people about what to call real country Music. Three Swedish people who are interested in country Music have described this Music by means of interviews. The interviews have been analysed and compared with literature dealing with country Music, and the result of the study presents three conceptions: authenticity, simplicity and contextual comprehension. The conclusion is that there seems to be some common views about what real country Music is but that these conceptions are not defined in exactly the same way by different people..

This work is about Cuban Music and my relationship to it. My study contains two different parts. In the first one I try to give a short summary of Cuban Music history. The second part is about possibilities and problems that can arise in the meeting with foreign cultures. I have focused on three themes: Music and respect, cultural encounters and travelling, and communication.

This thesis, entitled The Headmaster and the Music, is based on interviews with four headmasters, who are all working in the Swedish compulsory school. The purpose is to investigate how they view Music, both in general and as a school subject. Since the research on this topic is scarce, the study can be described as explorative.The result shows that the headmasters? personal experiences have an impact on the way they view Music. Four different focus points on Music in school have emerged from the material, and these represent the four very different views that each headmaster holds.

This essay presents a picture of swedish reggae listeners and how their love of Music give meaning to their lives and unite them in a sub-culture. Based on interviews with six young men about their involvement in reggae, it also investigates the relationship between Music and identity, or more clearly; how identity is expressed through Music. Furthermore, I discuss the notion of taste according to Bourdieu, and argue against his statement that taste in Music affirms the class and social background of an individual. Results from my empirical data have indicated that reggae Music is difficult to associate to a distinct lifestyle, which inclines me to argue that it has managed to transcend phenomena such as ethnicity, class and cultural affiliation..

Title: Music video: Twelvestep ? DownInside Made by: Benjamin Bondesson Christian Edgren Tutor: Silvio Ocasic Course admin: Peter Ekdahl Purpose: To create a Music video that we can stand, that challenges us in the creative process. And to help a struggling band with another medium to spread their Music. Goal:We intend to create a great product that is demanding and educational to us. Especially when it comes to cooperation and editing/post production. Keywords:Music video, digital video, film.

Music streaming services are changing the Music industry from the inside. After being struck by the piracy wave in the early 2000's, the industry was characterized by declining sales, layoffs, and a seemingly futile battle on what had become a culture of copyright infringement. After the successful launch of the Music streaming service Spotify, the Swedish recording industry took a turn for the better. Music streaming services are creating both new opportunities and challenges to the Music industry. This paper aims to study some of the opportunities and challenges concerning the creation of new Music.