Examensarbete (magisteruppsats) Uppsala : Musikvetenskap, Univ., 2007.

Musiklärarexamen. Examensarbete 15 hp.

The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare which municipal support the free music life receives in Karlstad and Varberg as well as which strategies and values the support rests on. The study also examines how the free music life experiences its own situation and task and how the free music life interacts with other musical actors and is influenced by the size of the municipality. In order to investigate the material and analyze the municipalities´ distribution of grants and motivations, idea analysis is used with the help of ideal types, which consist of Skot-Hansens rationalities. In the study´s results, a characterization of the music life in Karlstad and Varberg is done with the help of Per Mangsets cultural system and an account of the municipalities´ distribution of grants and motivations for the free music life. The interviews with the municipalities as well as representatives from the free music life are also presented here. The study concludes that the support for the free music life in the municipalities of Karlstad and Varberg differs, both in terms of the size of the support, how the support is distributed and in terms of forms of grant. The study also notes that the municipalities justify the free music life similar and relates to Skot-Hansens all rationalities and that the free music life experiences thier task differently.

This essay is about the musical life in the city of Växjö. Växjö is a rather small city that, during the last 50 years, has had a fantastic musical culture with bands such as AC/DC, Sex Pistols and Boney M playing there to name a few. With popular nightclubs and an exciting underground movement Växjö has served as one the most popular cities when it comes to music in the south of Sweden during the 1980s, 90s and early 2000s. This despite only having around 95000 citizens as of the year 2021. The essay uncovers the inner workings of the musical life and its network during the 1980s and 90s by the help of 13 people which have been interviewed. The people in question have either been active or prominent in connection to the musical life locally, mainly through the 1980s and 90s but also today, in the early 2020s. The interviews show that the musical life in Växjö has been complex. With a bunch of passionate individuals, nightclubs and underground stages people have changed the local culture and produced some successful bands such as The Ark or Melody Club. At the same time the city’s musical life is not as rich as it used to be before 2021. With the revolution of the internet we can see how it has become more expensive to arrange concerts and why it is more difficult than ever to develop a culturally significant musical life locally.