Projects tagged
Music & Sound
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Musicians trade in boycotts for activism to fight North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’
Read more: Musicians trade in boycotts for activism to fight North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’Animal Collective, Mumford and Sons and Duran Duran among performers who have turned concerts in state into fundraisers as part of NC Needs You movement Even as North Carolina’s governor, Pat McCrory, refused to comply with federal officials over his…
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Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic Activism
Read more: Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic ActivismFrom calling out poverty in his lyrics to his support of coding, the legendary artist pushed the world to care about more than music. With the sudden, tragic passing of Prince on Thursday, people are taking to social media to…
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Female Frequency
Read more: Female FrequencyFemale Frequency is a collective dedicated to empowering women & girls through the creation of music that is entirely female generated. “We are making an album created entirely by females, start to finish — this means that all writing, instrumentation,…
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Discwoman
Read more: DiscwomanFounded by Frankie Hutchinson, Emma Burgess-Olson and Christine Tran, Discwoman is a New York-based platform, collective, and booking agency—representing and showcasing cis women, trans women and genderqueer talent in electronic music. Started as a two-day festival in September 2014 at…
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Rubber Tracks
Read more: Rubber TracksConverse Rubber Tracks is a global community of professional recording studios, which provides free studio time to emerging artists. Bands and artists record without any fee whatsoever and maintain all the rights to their music. These studios are supported by…
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Beyonce’s Lemonade
Read more: Beyonce’s LemonadeIn a single hour, Beyoncé’s Lemonade re-wrote the textbook definition of what a visual album should look like. The genre-bending music it introduced will define the struggles a generation was enduring in 2016, specifically for black women. The project transcends…
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Savages
Read more: SavagesSavages are an all-female post-punk band that attempt to motivate people to be informed and take part in politics. They “try to give people a platform to express their own ideas” as Fay Milton of the band explains. The following…
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Thriller Protest
Read more: Thriller ProtestThe following is a description of the action that Huffington post published online on 6/25/2011: “Student demonstrators took to the streets of Santiago dressed as goblins and ghouls from Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video in their latest spirited pursuit of higher…
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Wake Up Masoala
Read more: Wake Up MasoalaIn an endeavor to raise awareness at the local and international level, Razia organized the Mifohaza Masoala (Wake Up Masoala) music and environmental festival, which took place at the edge of the Masoala Rainforest in October 2011. The concert featured…
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Arruinados
Read more: ArruinadosIn July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the…