Policy, Research & Politics
Culture, Commerce et Numérique
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- Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Enjeux et retombées économiques et artistiques de la diffusion et de la distribution en ligne de contenus
culturels locaux.
How CBC Radio Used To Share Canadian Music with the World
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- Tuesday, 27 June 2017
The creation of original Canadian compositions, for use in its music programs, was at the core of the mandate of CBC Radio from its beginning.
Under the guns: Kashmiri girls help preserve Sufi music traditions
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- Tuesday, 27 June 2017
When Kashmiri teenager Shabnam Bashir first took up classical Sufi music three years ago, she had to practice singing in secret because all the men in her family opposed her new passion.
Racist Band Names Are Protected Free Speech, Supreme Court Says…
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- Tuesday, 27 June 2017
The Supreme Court just dropped a seriously anti-PC decision this morning. And you have the band ‘The Slants’ to thank for it. So who are The Slants? Well, they’re a group a Asian-Americans that purposely owned the racist term and made it a band name.
India's Reggae Resistance: Defending Dissent Under Modi
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- Tuesday, 27 June 2017
An Indian reggae musician builds a Jamaican-style sound system to energise a wave of protests defending free speech.
Long-silenced songs of Holocaust survivors are rediscovered
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- Tuesday, 27 June 2017
When the death camps and ghettos of Europe were liberated at the end of World War II, a psychologist from Chicago visited former prisoners and recorded their interviews. Unheard for decades, a long-missing reel of songs has been rediscovered, offering a haunting document of the horrors of the Holocaust.
Congo-Kinshasa: Paris - La préfecture de police interdit le concert de Fally Ipupa à La Cigale
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- Tuesday, 27 June 2017
Dans l'arrêté publié sur son site Internet, la préfecture de police de Paris évoque «des risques de troubles graves à l'ordre public que ce concert était susceptible de générer».
Music - a secret diplomatic tool?
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- Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Can music really build bridges of understanding amid conflicts? Participants at the 2017 European Forum on Music in Cyprus think so, though they admit that music can also become a weapon.
No Korean Music in China, For the Foreseeable Future
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- Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Last year, South Korea deploys a US-built missile defence system to defend against their belligerent North Korean neighbor. In response, China institutes a hard (but unstated) ban on all Korean cultural exports.
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