Policy, Research & Politics
Jonas Gwangwa’s music and life embody the resistance against apartheid
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- Monday, 24 June 2019
Resistance was the sub-text of Gwangwa’s early musical endeavours. The Jazz Epistles, the first outfit to foreground his voice as composer and player, was also the first black ensemble in South Africa to record an LP.
Mehdi Rajabian, ou la musique au péril de sa vie
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- Monday, 24 June 2019
Arrêté en 2013 et emprisonné pendant deux ans, cet artiste veut continuer la musique coûte que coûte dans son pays, malgré les risques et la répression que subissent les artistes.
Grassroots music: the rebirth of political folk
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- Tuesday, 11 June 2019
The British and Irish folk scenes have been galvanised by acts that weave today’s politics – and anger – into their traditional music.
In Puerto Rico, A New Generation of Women’s Plena Groups Are Raising Their Voices
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- Tuesday, 11 June 2019
Plena, a musical genre rooted in African song and dance, originated in the southern coastal city of Ponce around 1920, though its complicated rhythms and “soneos,” or oral calls and responses, stretch back decades earlier.
Russia’s Youth Found Rap. The Kremlin Is Worried.
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- Tuesday, 11 June 2019
Streaming and social networks took music out of the hands of the country’s cultural guardians and let a new generation of artists emerge.
Separate Music From Politics, Museveni Tells Ugandan Artistes
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- Tuesday, 11 June 2019
President Museveni has said he will not tolerate music shows that are laced with politics and warned that in future nobody will be compensated for shows that have been cancelled because of politics.
La musique, instrument politique à Paris et à Londres
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- Tuesday, 11 June 2019
À travers l'exemple de ces deux grandes capitales, retour sur ces rencontres entre populations jeunes et immigrées qui ont favorisé l'effervescence de la création musicale et de l’engagement militant.
Ryan Tedder slams 'ludicrous' copyright cases
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- Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Ryan Tedder has written some of pop's biggest hits, including Beyonce's Halo, Ed Sheeran's Happier and, for his own band OneRepublic, Counting Stars. But he says pop is in danger of being stifled by the rise in copyright cases.
Youtubers and record labels are fighting, and record labels keep winning
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- Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Copyright issues have plagued YouTube and its community for years, but creators are calling this moment in time one of the worst eras for trying to navigate the platform.
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