Policy, Research & Politics
Dizzy Gillespie For President: When Politics Was a Groovier Thing
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- Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Gillespie was smart. He was funny. He played with Charlie Parker and influenced Miles Davis. Fifty years ago, he also ran for president.
Le jazz et la politique
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- Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Autrefois le jazz était la musique de la révolution, c'est maintenant le son fade des grandes compagnies. Mais le jazz peut encore être sauvé, dit le saxophoniste Gilad Atzmon.
Gregory Porter: 'You must experience life before you sing it'
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- Tuesday, 29 April 2014
A shoulder injury turned Gregory Porter from sports star to Grammy–winning jazz singer.
What Do Jazz and Politics Have to Do with Each Other?
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- Monday, 28 April 2014
The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Nat Hentoff on Journalism, Jazz and the First Amendment.
Rwanda: How Music Has Healed the Genocide Wounds
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- Monday, 14 April 2014
Music transcends barriers and borders. It's the language everyone understands regardless of their tribe or race.
EBU/GESAC/ICMP/ECSA Recommendation Sets Principles For Online Licensing
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- Monday, 14 April 2014
The Recommendation establishes common principles that strike a balance between the stakeholders' interests and objectives to lead to the cross-border licensing of public service broadcasters.
La musique pour révolutionner l'agriculture en Afrique !
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- Monday, 14 April 2014
Des stars de la musique africaine et one.org, une ONG qui mène campagne pour sensibiliser le plus grand nombre de citoyens sur les enjeux liés au développement, lancent « Cocoa 'na Chocolate » pour sensibiliser les jeunes sur l'avenir que représente l'agriculture.
Jorma Panula claims women should not be conductors
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- Monday, 14 April 2014
In an interview published by the Finnish news broadcaster MTV, Panula was bluntly asked if it is a good thing that women conductors enter the profession. Panula replied with a firm "I do not!"
Belarus: Outspoken musicians endangered
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- Monday, 14 April 2014
While governmental booking agencies earn money on organising concerts of international superstars in the Minsk Arena for certain Belarusian bands and musicians Belarus is still not a normal country.
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