Policy, Research & Politics
Des Strokes à Cardi B : pourquoi le monde de la musique vote Bernie Sanders
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- Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Après un mois de primaires, rien n'est encore terminé pour le socialiste Bernie Sanders dans la course à l'investiture démocrate, légèrement devancé par Joe Biden. En tout cas, le sénateur du Vermont peut compter sur le support de nombreux groupes qui n'hésitent pas à jouer lors de ses meetings.
Coronavirus and the music sector
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- Wednesday, 18 March 2020
The Coronavirus is spreading world-wide and the crisis is severely affecting public, cultural and social life. To get a better picture on how the music sector is affected, the European Music Council has developed a short questionnaire.
The Forgotten Political Roots of Bridge over Troubled Water
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Fifty years old this month, Simon and Garfunkel’s soaring anthem became one of the defining songs of the 1970s and beyond. But its saccharine reputation belies its protest-song origins.
Demonstrators in Chile are looking to the past for their soundtrack
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Once-silenced voices are resounding in Santiago—and new protest songs are being added to the canon.
Plácido Domingo and the future of opera
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Domingo is the last operatic superstar. What happens to opera after #MeToo allegations bring him down?
An Accelerator Under-Used?
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2020
With only ten years left to deliver on the Global Goals – and clear evidence that we are not on track – there is a pressing need to mobilise all resources, seize every opportunity, and identify every accelerator that can help us get there. One such potential accelerator is culture.
Mandela, un héros en chansons
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2020
11 février 1990 : il y a trente ans, Nelson Mandela était libéré après 27 ans de captivité. Le prix Nobel et premier président noir d’Afrique du Sud aura été l’un des hommes les plus chantés de son vivant.
Egypt bans 'music of the slums'
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- Tuesday, 03 March 2020
“Please do not punish my child,” a woman in her 50s tearfully told the reporter of Mehwar TV channel. She offered no name, except to say that she is the mother of Hamo Bika, a popular singer.
A Senator in Colombia Wants to Censor Reggaetón. Unrelatedly, What Year Is It Again?
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- Tuesday, 03 March 2020
Earlier this week, one of Colombia’s senators, Jonatan (Manguito) Tamayo Pérez, proposed that the country partially censor reggaetón through a process of approval that would involve *checks notes* the police or an otherwise hand-selected committee tasked with the apparently vital mission, according to El Tiempo.
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