Policy, Research & Politics
Demonstrators in Chile are looking to the past for their soundtrack
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Once-silenced voices are resounding in Santiago—and new protest songs are being added to the canon.
Plácido Domingo and the future of opera
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Domingo is the last operatic superstar. What happens to opera after #MeToo allegations bring him down?
An Accelerator Under-Used?
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2020
With only ten years left to deliver on the Global Goals – and clear evidence that we are not on track – there is a pressing need to mobilise all resources, seize every opportunity, and identify every accelerator that can help us get there. One such potential accelerator is culture.
Mandela, un héros en chansons
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2020
11 février 1990 : il y a trente ans, Nelson Mandela était libéré après 27 ans de captivité. Le prix Nobel et premier président noir d’Afrique du Sud aura été l’un des hommes les plus chantés de son vivant.
Egypt bans 'music of the slums'
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- Tuesday, 03 March 2020
“Please do not punish my child,” a woman in her 50s tearfully told the reporter of Mehwar TV channel. She offered no name, except to say that she is the mother of Hamo Bika, a popular singer.
A Senator in Colombia Wants to Censor Reggaetón. Unrelatedly, What Year Is It Again?
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- Tuesday, 03 March 2020
Earlier this week, one of Colombia’s senators, Jonatan (Manguito) Tamayo Pérez, proposed that the country partially censor reggaetón through a process of approval that would involve *checks notes* the police or an otherwise hand-selected committee tasked with the apparently vital mission, according to El Tiempo.
We need music to be political, not just entertaining
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- Tuesday, 03 March 2020
When the Dixie Chicks criticized the Bush administration for planning to launch a war in Iraq nine days before the president did so in 2003, the Dallas-based band was ostracized, forced to play for smaller audiences for years afterward.
Musicians share their air-travel horror stories
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- Tuesday, 03 March 2020
As summer festival season ramps up, many musicians will face the travails of travel to perform: visa issues, lost bags and the challenges of getting their gear across borders.
En Arabie saoudite, la chanson de la rappeuse Asayel Slay crée la controverse
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- Tuesday, 03 March 2020
Le clip de la chanteuse a déclenché une polémique révélatrice du combat autour de l'évolution des moeurs dans le royaume.
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