Policy, Research & Politics
La canción “Patria y Vida” inflama la pugna cultural sobre Cuba
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- Monday, 01 March 2021
El dúo de Gente de Zona, los cantautores Descemer Bueno y Yotuel Romero del grupo Orishas, y los raperos Maykel Osorbo y El Funky, lanzan una canción que desafía al gobierno socialista cubano.
Interview with Jota Ramos, Colombian rapper targeted because of his activism
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- Tuesday, 02 February 2021
At the beginning of 2020, Colombian rapper Jota Ramos returned to Villa Rica in Colombia after completing Amnesty International’s protection programme for his activism work concerning peace and sustainable agriculture production in Cauca, which allowed him to live abroad in 2019.
The soundtrack of the Arab uprisings in 10 songs
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- Tuesday, 02 February 2021
Few of the pro-democracy protesters who took the Middle East by storm a decade ago had a flag to raise or a leader to follow. But all of them had a song to sing.
A Safety Guide for Artists
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- Tuesday, 02 February 2021
When an artist first faces risk, there are not a lot of roadmaps: the experience can be incredibly isolating and disorienting.
Quand musique rimait avec politique
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- Tuesday, 02 February 2021
Retour sur l’aventure, musicale et engagée de Rock Against Racism, qui se servit du punk pour dénoncer le racisme qui gangrenait l’Angleterre.
Pablo Hasél, a la cárcel por rapear y tuitear
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- Tuesday, 02 February 2021
Tres delitos: enaltecimiento del terrorismo, injurias a la corona e injurias a las instituciones del Estado, por los mensajes que escribió en su cuenta de Twitter y expresó en sus canciones colgadas en Youtube.
Queering the music scene in the Middle East
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- Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Few Middle Eastern musicians subvert expectations quite like the Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila.
Taliban Music Ban May Befall Afghanis After U.S. Troop Withdrawal
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- Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Imagine a country where music is outlawed; where those caught playing any kind of music — from folk to classical to pop — are routinely beaten and pilloried, their instruments smashed.
Confronting Our Complicity: Music Theory and White Supremacy
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- Tuesday, 19 January 2021
For many students, the traditional music theory core curriculum is an undesirable and yet unavoidable part of their college music experience. It becomes something to be suffered through, survived rather than savored.
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