Policy, Research & Politics
Iraq: Boy beheaded for listening to western music
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
The 15-year-old boy was arrested by ISIS militants in central Mosul for listening to “western music”, according to local sources.
Instruments on planes: Musicians call on the EU Council to follow the EU Parliament!
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
You thought that the EU was fair to musicians traveling on planes with their instruments? Wrong! Here’s why.
"Statut de l'artiste" au Mali, le projet de loi adopté
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Bonne nouvelle pour les artistes maliens ! En Effet, leur gouvernement, à l'issue d'un conseil des ministres, a adopté, un projet de décret qui va leur confèrer désormais un statut, en fixant notamment le régime général de leurs droits et obligations.
Future of Cambodian Arts
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- Wednesday, 10 February 2016
“The arts is no longer a discrete freestanding entity: It is part of an ecosystem that needs to contribute, coalesce, intersect, intervene, communicate and dialogue with others”.
“Purifying” Online Streaming: Symbolic or the New Normal?
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- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
Online streaming services. That constantly shifting wild-west of the Chinese music industry is now coming under the regulatory scanner.
A peaceful riot: Johannesburg’s historic Concert In The Park in 1985
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- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
The Concert in the Park ended up raising in excess of R450 000 for Operation Hunger. More significant than the fundraising, however, was the complete integration of the audience, with black and white dancing side by side, and the peaceful mood that prevailed amongst all.
Iran: 165 Iranian artists and activists protest charges against two musicians
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- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
All three have been sentenced to six years in prison for “insulting the sacred” and “propaganda against the state” through the production and promotion of underground music, as well as having been fined 200 million tomans.
Opera will never be politically correct
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- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
There is simply too much history involved, too many centuries of social change and evolving moral codes, since the form was created more than four centuries ago.
Pussy Riot: more professional
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- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
Pussy riot is not only focusing on the malpractice of Putin’s Russia. In their view the authorities in general are no good.
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