''Gaffa'' (stylized as ''GAFFA'') is a free
Nordic music magazine with local editions in
Denmark
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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.
The name ''gaffa'' comes from
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, with the magazine's stated intention of "binding the different parts of the
music community
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In the past such groups have typically developed within a town or school, where the members can meet physic ...
together".
History and profile
''Gaffa'' has been published on a monthly basis since 1983. The magazine is distributed to places such as educational institutions,
record shops, libraries and cafés, as well as a small number to paying subscribers. It features music news and notes, interviews, album reviews and upcoming concert schedules.
''Gaffa''
's website, GAFFA.dk, was established in 1996.
[ Since December 2008 all back issues of the magazine are accessible online free of charge.
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. Based on ]MediaWiki
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, it is similar to Wikipedia
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and covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike licence. 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. Categories include Album of the Year, Foreign Album of the Year, Singer of the Year and Foreign Singer of the Year.
Since 2010, ''GAFFA''’s Swedish readers have also voted for and celebrated their favourite artists through ''GAFFA'' Priset. In 2012, ''GAFFA'' Norway similarly established its version of the awards.
See also
*List of magazines in Denmark
In Denmark there are various magazines with different frequency types, including weekly magazines, monthly magazines and quarterly magazines. As in other Nordic countries, the national consumer organizations publish their magazines in Denmark. In ...
References
External links
''GAFFA'' Norway
''GAFFA'' Sweden
''Gaffa'' archives
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1983 establishments in Denmark
Danish-language magazines
Magazines established in 1983
Mass media in Aarhus
Monthly magazines published in Denmark
Music magazines