Projects tagged
Music & Sound
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USAID’s Cuba hip-hop project
Read more: USAID’s Cuba hip-hop projectHAVANA (AP) — A U.S. agency’s secret infiltration of Cuba’s underground hip-hop scene to spark a youth movement against the government was “reckless” and “stupid,” Sen. Patrick Leahy said Thursday after The Associated Press revealed the operation. On at least…
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How Nina Simone turned the movement into music
Read more: How Nina Simone turned the movement into musicMy skin is black,” the first woman’s story begins, “my arms are long.” And, to a slow and steady beat, “my hair is woolly, my back is strong.” Singing in a club in Holland, in 1965, Nina Simone introduced a…
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Mapping skin deep
Read more: Mapping skin deep“Mapping skin deep” is an audiovisual public installation consisting of portraits with testimonies from refugee/undocumented immigrants currently residing in Montreal and elsewhere. Their bodies have been scarred in post-production tracing the route they took from their homeland to Montreal, hence…
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China’s Underground Hiphop
Read more: China’s Underground HiphopChina’s underground hiphop became an art movement since early 2000s. With characteristics of self-expression, localization and social criticism, Chinese hip hop music quickly gained popularity among students and working-class Chinese. Some notable music groups from Beijing include Yin Ts’ang (隐藏)…
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Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”
Read more: Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”This month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in…
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Same Love
Read more: Same LoveThe rap duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis has broken records with their hits “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us.” And now, with their pro-marriage equality hit “Same Love,” which features out lesbian Mary Lambert, they’re shattering stereotypes. Just as “Same…
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Y’en A Marre
Read more: Y’en A Marre“Y’en a Marre (“We’re Fed Up”) first emerged in 2011 as a grassroots campaign against injustice and inequality in Senegal. Spearheaded by the hip hop group Keur Gui Crew in response to local power outages, the nascent protest movement went…
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How Bali punks Navicula took on the palm oil industry
Read more: How Bali punks Navicula took on the palm oil industryIn Indonesia, a loud and politically committed generation of punk bands are shaking big business – and getting results The briefing took place in a small commercial office in Jakarta, with no insulation from the heat, smog or noise of…
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Occupy West Side Story
Read more: Occupy West Side StoryIf you’re a fan of West Side Story (music by Leonard Bernstein), don’t miss this “updated” video. Absolutely first-rate! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wGZRJG4ZJE “Occupy West Side Story” takes aim at NYPD Deputy Inspector Edward J. WInski, the white-shirted bully of Occupy Wall Street,…
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Pete Seeger: Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone?
Read more: Pete Seeger: Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone?Now 92 years old, the legendary folk singer recalls his pioneering days touring college campuses and discusses his favorite songs. (In March of 1960, at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, a campus radio station recorded a Pete Seeger concert. The…