Policy, Research & Politics
When the music's over
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
When Pearl Jam led 50,000 people in a chant of “Save the Showbox” in a Seattle stadium last month, the rockers confronted a question facing many cities: When do the cultural costs of a property boom become too high?
The Slow Silencing of Sexism at the Symphony
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
This season, works by women composers are being featured more frequently by many American orchestras. Mozart and Schubert, meet Mazzolli and Shaw.
Improving creators' royalty collections in Africa
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
CISAC Global Collections Report, to be issued later this year, is expected to show royalty collections for creators in Africa at more than €70 million, mostly for music.
European parliament gives thumbs up to controversial copyright reforms
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Today’s plenary vote in the European parliament was on amended proposals that had been rejected by MEPs in a vote in July with parliamentarians arguing for a fuller debate and more balanced measures.
Rap music rebels against Egyptian society
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
The success of Mekky’s “Akher Cha’awa” demonstrates that rap songs can express the reality of youth more so than other musical styles.
L'activiste colombien qui utilise la musique contre les milices armées
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Alberto Vidal Mina, activiste colombien, s’est mué en prof de musique et de danse pour aider à éduquer et émanciper les jeunes les plus précaires de sa ville : Caloto, dans le sud-ouest de la Colombie.
Music industry campaigners hope lacklustre protests and talk of butterflies will help get safe harbour reform through
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
As the music business prepares for the next big push to secure safe harbour reform in Europe, the industry’s lobbyists are hoping that MEPs have seen the photographs of last weekend’s protests against said reforms, which are somewhat light on protestors.
Bobi Wine, Uganda’s ‘ghetto president’, upstages the real head of state
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
Robert Kyagulanyi cannot remember the day that Yoweri Museveni was first inaugurated as president of Uganda. It was 33 years ago, and he was just three.
Censorship at Donaueschingen?
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
Can contemporary classical music serve as a useful framework for negotiating one of the most contentious political issues of our generation?
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