Policy, Research & Politics

Rap music rebels against Egyptian society

Details: 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.

The Arab Weekly

L'activiste colombien qui utilise la musique contre les milices armées

Details: 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.

Green Room

Music industry campaigners hope lacklustre protests and talk of butterflies will help get safe harbour reform through

Details: 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.

Complete Music Update

Bobi Wine, Uganda’s ‘ghetto president’, upstages the real head of state

Details: 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.

Mail & Guardian

Censorship at Donaueschingen?

Details: 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?

VAN

Don't Get It Twisted: 'We're Not Gonna Take It' Can Be Anyone's Protest Song

Details: Tuesday, 04 September 2018

Back in April, teachers in Oklahoma went on strike, demanding increases to salaries and school funding. Their message was amplified by a song — one that, 34 years earlier, had been the sound of student rebellion.

NPR