Policy, Research & Politics
Is Tanzania Going Too Far in Banning 'Half Naked' Photos?
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- Tuesday, 06 February 2018
The Tanzanian government could soon ban all sexually explicit content on social media. The Deputy Minister of Information, Culture, Arts and Sport has already called into her office a number of artists to caution them against promoting such content.
Congress, It’s Time to Pay Musicians
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- Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Passing the Music Bus bill would go a long way to helping musicians earn a better paycheck. It’s actually an omnibus bill composed of three acts.
China takes aim at hip-hop, saying 'low-taste content' must stop
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- Tuesday, 06 February 2018
China’s censors have a new target in a widespread clamp-down on popular culture: the country’s nascent hip-hop scene, which resonated with Chinese youth last year on hugely popular television show “Rap of China.”
Industrie musicale et conflits au Niger
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- Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Situé dans une région de fortes turbulences géopolitiques, le Niger est un vaste espace fragile confronté à des tensions armées récurrentes particulièrement dans le sud-est du pays, où des affrontements appelés par les médias « rébellion touareg » ont repris en 2012.
Chinese music fans fear rap latest to fall foul of government censors
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Chinese news website says ‘artists with tattoos, hip hop music’ to face government broadcast ban, amid tightened government control of the media and arts.
An Orchestra to Break 72 Years of Silence
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
If the populations of two countries but one nation haven't spoken to each other for decades how does one break this silence? When political measures keep failing, can a musical performance challenge the status quo, achieve the unthinkable?
The Trump Protest-Song Boom, in the Eye of History
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
The year since has seen a flourishing of protest music, extending a preexisting trend in which even the most vanilla pop singer began regularly slinging social causes with their music.
Egyptian singer Shyma sent to prison for two years over 'explicit' music video
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
An Egyptian pop singer has been sentenced to two years in prison for "inciting debauchery" after a music video showing her suggestively eating a banana was ruled to be too sexually explicit.
Téhéran : à la chasse aux chants cachés du shah
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
A l’image de la répression des mœurs qui alimente les soulèvements actuels, tout un pan de l’histoire musicale de l’Iran et d’ailleurs reste prohibé depuis la révolution islamique.
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