Policy, Research & Politics
Islamic State issues ban on songs by American singer
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- Tuesday, 28 April 2015
ISIL stated that Madonna's songs are 'haram' (forbidden in Islam), since her music and performances, according to ISIL, "represent anti-Islamic values", specifying that anyone caught listening to her music will be punished with 80 lashes.
The “Blurred Lines” of music and copyright
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- Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Take, for instance, a complex case about jazz in the late 1940s. Chicago pianist Jimmy Yancey helped develop the genre of boogie woogie, a type of jazz that often features frenetic improvisation around a chugging piano line of melody.
How the forgotten music of the civil rights movement was hiding in plain sight
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- Wednesday, 15 April 2015
A treasure trove of long-forgotten civil rights era protest music could have been lost forever if one man hadn't thought to start flipping over old records to see what was on the other side.
Pakistan: DJs and singers silenced with new loudspeaker regulation
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2015
In the Punjab province in Pakistan, DJs, singers and show organisers are threatening to launch province-wide protest if Police continues to register cases against them while seizing their music equipment and loudspeaker systems because of a new legislation, the 'Punjab Sound System Regulation Ordinance 2015'.
‘Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten,’ a Documentary, Revives Cambodia’s Silenced Sounds
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2015
For proof of the universality of rock 'n' roll, look no further than Cambodia in the 1960s and '70s.
France: Prime minister intervenes to stop ban of posters for musical trio
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2015
The French Prime Minister stepped in to have a ban lifted on an advert for a musical trio called 'The Priests'.
Burkina Faso: La musique pour sensibiliser les jeunes à la politique
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Au Burkina Faso, le rappeur Smockey est de retour sur la scène musicale après l'insurrection populaire avec un triple album dénommé Pré-volution.
Opera plays on through east Ukraine chaos
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2015
The fighting in east Ukraine may have driven away soloists and drained the coffers, but it's still curtain up at the Donbass Opera theatre, thanks to its staff's heroic efforts.
Mexican city bans 'narcocorridos'
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- Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Joining Eminem, Metallica, Madonna and the Sex Pistols, some musicians in northern Mexico have had their music banned from the capital of northern Chihuahua state because of their songs' provocative lyrics.
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