Policy, Research & Politics
Segundo Informe del Observatorio de la Música Argentina
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- Tuesday, 05 July 2022
Más del 95% de las y los artistas musicales pertenecen a la música independiente y solo el 9% tiene manager. Este es uno de los datos que se pueden conocer en el Segundo Informe estadístico del Observatorio de la Música Argentina que publicó el Instituto Nacional de la Música (INAMU) para generar información específica sobre la situación actual de las personas músicas de todo el país.
Music Politics After the Arab Uprisings
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- Tuesday, 21 June 2022
In the post-Arab uprisings era, Arabic alternative artists, especially in the Gulf, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon, became a recognizable medium for promoting a specific individualist lifestyle based on fetishizing identities and commodified music catered to satisfy immediate needs.
Afghan musicians in Portugal reimagine their musical futures
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- Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Musicians with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music arrived in Portugal in December 2021 with high hopes of working again in their profession. But six months later, the future remains uncertain for them.
Senegal electro star sings to save his language
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- Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Benoit Fader Keita never intended to make electro music. But after a sell-out first show in Dakar last month, the singer believes the genre could be key to saving his beloved language from extinction.
Au Soudan, la lutte en musique
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- Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Noureddine Jaber gratte quelques notes avant que ses musiciens ne se lancent dans les mélodies rythmées de l'est soudanais: avec son "tambo-guitare", une lyre africaine raccordée à un manche de guitare électrique, il entend briser la marginalisation de son peuple, les Beja.
Ucrania impone restricciones a la música rusa y la importación de libros rusos
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- Tuesday, 21 June 2022
El parlamento ucraniano votó dos leyes que impondrían severas restricciones a los libros y la música rusos.
What Could a Culture Goal Look Like?
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- Tuesday, 07 June 2022
In the framework of IMC advocacy activities towards an explicit dedicated Goal on Culture in post-2030 global development frameworks, and towards Mondiacult, the UNESCO Global Conference on Cultural Policies, the IMC and fellow members of the #culture2030campaign, have launched a survey aiming at gathering visions and inputs on what this Goal should look like.
Should the police censor music?
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- Tuesday, 07 June 2022
Drill music presents itself as the soundtrack of liberation, but it’s dangerously mired in gang violence.
The Global Influence of K-pop: BTS at the White House
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- Tuesday, 07 June 2022
American politics has historically leveraged music artists to expand the reach of political messaging.
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