Genre Organisations
5 musical genre organisations in Denmark are supported by funds allocated by the Danish Arts Council. These organisations work to promote music within their respective genres through various activities and subsidies.
Danish Rock Council (ROSA)
Danish Folk Council (FFS)
JazzDanmark
Danish World Music Association
SNYK (the Secretariat for Contemporary Music)
Organisations and Institutions
The Danish Arts Council provides operating subsidies to a number of other organisations and institutions:
Dacapo, a recording company in the classical field which is amongst other things responsible for establishing a national anthology of Danish music covering all areas of musical history.
Dacapo
Edition Samfundet, a publisher within the classical field whose activities include promoting music which does not have the interest of the private music publishers.
Edition Samfundet
The organisation Danish Amateur Music, a secretariat for the 14 associations for choirs and orchestras as well as the two umbrella organisations Danish Amateur Choirs Unions (DAKU) and the Danish Amateur Music Union (DAMU). The secretariats provides advice and guidance on such matters as international exchanges and funding.
Danish Amateur Music
Live Music in Schools, an association which organises school concerts all over the country, in collaboration with local authorities.
Live Music in Schools (LMS)
MXD
The purpose of Music Export Denmark (MXD) is to promote and support Danish music exports and the international presentation of professional Danish pop and rock music, both commercially and culturally, by:
- providing economic support for Danish music exports
- organising initiatives and concerts
- improving international familiarity with Danish music
- collecting and processing information and know-how.
