Projects tagged
Music & Sound
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Give a Beat
Read more: Give a BeatMusic energizes us, lifts us up when we’re down, reaches deep within us to release emotions, creates cultural understanding, and makes us more open and receptive to new ideas. Studies show that when people are listening and dancing together, they…
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Resonate, Reverberate, Roar,
Read more: Resonate, Reverberate, Roar,Resonate, Reverberate, Roar (Re-Re-Roar) is a growing archive of original sounds that express an experimental, independent, and socially progressive spirit. The sounds on Re-Re-Roar include field recordings, interviews, songs, speeches, experimental music, and more. Re-Re-Roar is a site for research…
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Gangnam for Freedom
Read more: Gangnam for FreedomEarlier this year Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei recorded a gangnam style video, dancing handcuffed, sending a message to the Chinese authorities who responded by banning the video as soon as it came online. British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor made a…
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Global Citizen Ticket Drive: Fans can earn points for concerts through social activism
Read more: Global Citizen Ticket Drive: Fans can earn points for concerts through social activismBy Steve Knopper To fight world hunger and transform their fans into social activists, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Beyoncé, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Kanye West, My Morning Jacket and dozens of other stars will donate two tickets to every show…
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Public Option Annie
Read more: Public Option AnnieThe Guerilla Musical heard round the world What was it? ‘Public Option Annie’ was a highly visible musical intervention to reframe the health care debate in late 2009. They wanted to re-energize progressives frustrated by a summer of unchecked right…
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Riot grrrl MANIFESTO
Read more: Riot grrrl MANIFESTORiot grrrl is a feminist punk rock movement started in the early 90’s, particularly in Washington DC, Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Bands that follow the movement include Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Jack Off Jill, Bratmobile, Adickdid, The Butchies, Heavens to…
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School of Echoes
Read more: School of EchoesUltra-Red is a collective founded by two AIDS activists in 1994 to explore the intersection of the political and aesthetic through “militant sound investigations”. “While the image determines much of our understanding of activist art, Ultra-red turn the focus to…
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Lebanese art rockers creating the soundtrack to the Arab Spring
Read more: Lebanese art rockers creating the soundtrack to the Arab SpringBeirut, Lebanon (CNN) — They’ve been described as the voice of their generation — though not one that everyone is comfortable hearing. Mashrou’ Leila, whose name translates as “The Night Project,” is a controversial alternative rock band from Lebanon, whose…
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Sing for the Climate
Read more: Sing for the ClimateSing for the Climate is a big singing manifestation that first took place on September 22 and 23 2012 in Belgium. More than 80.000 people in more than 180 Belgian cities and communities sang the song “Do it Now”, urging…
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Labs Creates Sustainable Music Studios in Unlikely Places
Read more: Labs Creates Sustainable Music Studios in Unlikely PlacesIt started as an experiment: what happens when you equip a vibrant youth community with the resources to express themselves through hip hop and electronic music? Last summer I traveled to Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo to find out and…