Policy, Research & Politics
Afghanistan : dans une vidéo, des soldats talibans brûlent des instruments de musique et insultent des artistes
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- Saturday, 15 January 2022
La vidéo montre deux musiciens avec des vêtements déchirés après avoir été battus par les forces talibanes. Les soldats ont publiquement insulté les artistes et leur ont coupé les cheveux, une punition courante pour les personnes soupçonnées de délits mineurs.
La industria de la música se une por el sonido sustentable en Music Climate Pact
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- Thursday, 13 January 2022
El pacto medioambiental establece compromisos “que servirán como una declaración de intenciones para el sector musical mundial”.
India: Airline and airport operators have been asked to play Indian music only
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- Tuesday, 04 January 2022
To ask airline and airport operators to confine themselves to the Indian music route is at best silly and at worst lip service to India’s rich music traditions, which require more meaningful steps for preservation.
Global music industry signs up to Music Climate Pact
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- Tuesday, 04 January 2022
A group of leading music companies have signed a wide-ranging commitment to ‘decarbonise’ the global music business in alignment with the latest science on climate change.
Egypt: Syndicate of Musical Professions banned 19 musicians from performing
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- Tuesday, 04 January 2022
The Head of the Syndicate, Hani Shaker, justified the decision claiming that the artists “do not meet the standards of the Syndicate”.
Thomas Mapfumo on music, politics and unity
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- Tuesday, 04 January 2022
Mukanya’s heart will always reside in Zimbabwe, but calling out politicians in his music has made it difficult for him to live there. He is also ready to pass on the mantle.
De la manipulation par la musique
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- Tuesday, 04 January 2022
Dans Si c’est un homme, Primo Levi raconte son emprisonnement au cours de l’année 1944 dans le camp d’Auschwitz-Monowitz. Emblématique du devoir de mémoire, le livre veut empêcher d’oublier les atrocités commises par le régime nazi dans les camps de concentration et les centres de mise à mort. Les musiques entendues dans les camps sont parmi les choses pratiquement inoubliables.
Bruce Springsteen y Barack Obama: de música y política
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- Tuesday, 04 January 2022
A primera vista, quizá no existan dos actividades tan distantes como las del político y el músico. Casi por definición, un político es lo opuesto a un músico y la mayor parte de los músicos se declaran apolíticos.
All members of Afghanistan National Institute of Music now evacuated from Kabul
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- Wednesday, 08 December 2021
All students, teachers, staff and family of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) have now been evacuated from Kabul after a fifth and final successful airlift on 16 November.
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