Policy, Research & Politics
Faut-il un utérus pour jouer de la harpe?
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- Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Prenez un orchestre classique, et regardez qui se cache derrière les pupitres. La plupart du temps, au trombone, c’est un homme. Aux percussions ? Un homme. Le chef d’orchestre ? Un homme. Et à la harpe ? Une femme.
Censura en la música
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- Tuesday, 19 January 2021
La censura y su represión ha sido el eje vertebrador de una mesa redonda en la que un filósofo, una jurista y un cantante, comandados por un crítico musical, han abordado los dilemas en torno a la libertad de creación creativa.
YouTube Blocks Rap Song Critical of Thai Monarchy
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- Tuesday, 05 January 2021
A music video by Thailand’s foremost dissent rap group was blocked by YouTube as of Monday night.
Seeking justice for Lion Sleeps Tonight composer
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- Tuesday, 05 January 2021
Zimbabwean music mogul Munya Chanetsa felt his hackles rise when he learnt about the royalties battles that have been fought over the song Mbube - also known as The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
Copyright infringement – music lesson or public performance?
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- Tuesday, 05 January 2021
Imagine that you have a daughter who likes to play the piano and is enthusiastic about improving her musical skills and experience. She finds music lessons in your neighbourhood and asks you to let her attend. At her lessons she purchases a score and plays recent, popular songs on the piano with her teacher; but one day, someone knocks on the classroom door and states that the music lessons are infringing copyright.
Barakina, le rappeur nigérien qui dénonce la mal gouvernance
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- Tuesday, 05 January 2021
Dans un pays où le désert domine le paysage, la scène musicale populaire du Niger est resté longtemps méconnue. C'est pourquoi il était formidable d'entendre Barakina sur l'émission phare de la BBC "This Is Africa". Un homme qui a de grandes ambitions pour son pays - et pour le continent.
Ana Tijoux: “Siempre me ha gustado la política pero no me interesa el poder, porque poder ya tengo”
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- Tuesday, 05 January 2021
Elegida por la BBC entre las 100 mujeres más influyentes de 2020, la solista habla con Culto de procesos sociales, su debut editorial y su intención de ir como constituyente.
The Changing Nature of Protest in Jazz
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- Tuesday, 08 December 2020
From the stage at Carnegie Hall in 1912 to the streets of Minneapolis in 2020, jazz has always “demanded.” But not always in the same way.
2020 Was The Year Of Protest Music
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- Tuesday, 08 December 2020
One of the most striking ways we'll remember the music of 2020 — a year of serious social reckoning, especially during the resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May — was by the sounds of protest.
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