Background and experience
Daniel Nordgård is professor in music business and management at the University of Agder and director of CreaTeME, the Center for Excellence in Creative use of Technology in Music Education. He has a broad background from music, foremost as musician and artist, but he also has experience from concert promotion and festival management and is former festival manager of the Quart Festival in Norway. He is the co-manager of the Kristiansand Roundtable Conference and holds several positions in different boards, nationally and internationally, including Gramo (Norwegian collecting society for neighboring rights) and Gramart (The Norwegian featured artist organization). Nordgård is regularly invited as guest speaker at music business conferences and academic conferences, nationally and internationally, and is regularly used as expert by policy makers and legislators.
Areas of responsibility
Daniel Nordgård is professor in music industries and digitalization, and lecturer in the University of Agders Master's program specialization in music business and management. Nordgård is center leader of CreaTeME, UiAs new Center for Excellence in Creative use of Technology in Music Education. CreaTeME's vision is innovative, inclusive, responsive, and responsible use of technology in artistic education, with the main goal to become an international hub for the development of artistic and pedagogical use of technology in higher music education. The Center's focus is organized around the following five work packages: WP1: Responsive Pedagogy; WP2: New ways of using technology; WP3: New ways of making and performing music; WP4: Artistic Entrepreneurship and WP5: Responsible Education.
Nordgård is co-leading the research group on Popular Music Studies and is member of the executive board of IMBRA - The International Music Business Research Association.
Research
Nordgård’s research and publications focus on understanding better the music industries’ digital transitions, and with particular focus on three themes: (1) structural change in the music industries, (2) music streaming and digital sustainability, and (3) music policy.
Nordgård’s research is interdisciplinary, operating at the crossroads of multiple fields and disciplines, such as popular music studies, music management, digital economics and music sociology. Also, his research is very much grounded on a dialogue with the music industries and its stakeholders – nationally and internationally. Nordgård has been and still is active in different music industries initiatives, projects and boards and much of his research and teaching build on close dialogues with different actors from the field. He is regularly invited as speaker at music industry conferences as well as research conferences.
Nordgård’s publications stretches from focusing on digitalization’s impacts on the music industries, the changing economics from music streaming, or the application of new digital tools and platforms within or relating to the music industries. Nordgård also publishes on relating sectors, drawing on insights from the music industries’ processes of adapting to digital change. Beyond this, Nordgård has also published on more traditional areas within the music industries, such as live music and music festivals.
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Select publications:
- Morrow, G., Nordgård, D. (2022). The Music Modernization Act: Mechanical Copyright in the Age of Music Streaming. In: Morrow, G., Nordgård, D., Tschmuck, P. (eds) Rethinking the Music Business. Music Business Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09532-0_10
- Nordgård, D. (2022) The presence and Absence of Policy in the Digital Music Industries. In Homan, S. (Ed.) The Bloomsbury Handbook to Popular Music Policy. Bloomsbury Publishing, USA
- Nordgård, D (2018) The Music Business and Digital Impacts: Innovations and Disruptions in the Music Industries, Cham, Switzerland, Springer Nature
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Nordgård, D (2017) Assessing Music Streaming and Industry Disruptions, in Meil, P. and Kirov, V. (Eds.) (2017). Policy Implications of Virtual Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
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Nordgård, D. (2016) Lessons From the Worlds Most Advanced Market for Music Streaming Services, in Business Innovation and Disruptions in the Music Industries, Massachusetts, Edward Elgar Publishing