Dan Lundberg. Photo: Jonas André
The Director General of Musikverket (Swedish Performing Arts Agency) Dan Lundberg is Associate Professor in musicology at the Stockholm University and Åbo Akademi University. Lundberg’s main areas of research involve questions about music, identity, cultural heritage an ideology as well as Swedish and European folk music from an ethnomusicological perspective.
Dan Lundberg was appointed Director General of Swedish Performing Arts Agency 2020. Before that he was archive director at Svenskt visarkiv at Statens musiksamlingar (Swedish National Collections of Music). Svenskt visarkiv became part of Musikverket 2011 with Lundberg in the combined role of Chief Librarian and Archive Director.
From 2004–2007, Lundberg was an adjunct professor in Music and Cultural Diversity at the University of Gävle. He is active within the international ethnomusicological research community and, among other positions, President for ESEM (European Seminar in Ethnomusicology) for the period 2008–2014.