Projects tagged
Music & Sound
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The 1975, Greta Thunberg’s Call to Action
Read more: The 1975, Greta Thunberg’s Call to ActionClimate activist Greta Thunberg has teamed up with UK band The 1975 to record a song in she calls for mass civil disobedience to force action on greenhouse gas emissions. In the track, titled “The 1975,” Thunberg recites an essay…
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Bus Regulation: The Musical – The Trilogy
Read more: Bus Regulation: The Musical – The TrilogyBus Regulation: The Musical (2019 – 2023) is a Trilogy of roller-skating Musicals inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ performed in three of the UK’s biggest post-industrial city-regions – Greater Manchester, Strathclyde and Merseyside – in collaboration with local…
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The History of Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” as a Protest Song
Read more: The History of Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” as a Protest SongYou could hear their chants from the White House. On June 6, hundreds of activists and protesters gathered on Black Lives Matter Plaza, a two-block section on 16th Street in Washington D.C. that was renamed amid BLM protests. The large…
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Why Is Iran’s Regime So Afraid of This Song?
Read more: Why Is Iran’s Regime So Afraid of This Song?“Baraye,” the anthem of Iran’s “Woman, Life, Liberty” protest movement—a song woven together entirely from a Twitter hashtag trend in which Iranians express their investment in the current protests—continues to unite Iranians in their opposition to the Islamic Republic several…
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Deconstructing The 1975’s ‘Love It If We Made It’
Read more: Deconstructing The 1975’s ‘Love It If We Made It’The 1975’s ‘Love It If We Made It’ is a dystopian love story that feels appropriate for the last 18 months. Even though it was written before the pandemic, its relevancy has only increased tenfold since its release in 2018.…
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Dance with ghost, Student using dance to protest the corrupt Chinese tradition
Read more: Dance with ghost, Student using dance to protest the corrupt Chinese traditionA viral video of a student dance performance in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has won praise for speaking out against so-called ghost marriages, which many today see as an archaic and even dangerous tradition. In a recent competition,…
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La Casa Invisible Protests Against Gentrification
Read more: La Casa Invisible Protests Against GentrificationLa Casa Invisible project was started in 2007 in Malaga, Spain, when a group of socially involved participants squatted in a run-down building, aiming to eventually claim the legal rights to the property (Moor & Smart, 2016). The space was…
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Anthem From the Iranian Protests
Read more: Anthem From the Iranian ProtestsOn September 27, 2022, a song by Iranian musician Shervin Hajipour ‘broke’ Persian social media. Hajipour posted a video on Instagram of himself singing a song for the mass protests that began in Iran following the death of Jina (Mahsa)…
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From K-pop musical fandom to political activism in Latin America
Read more: From K-pop musical fandom to political activism in Latin AmericaDuring the 2020 and 2021 social protests in Chile, Colombia, and Peru, Latin American fans of K-pop, Korean popular music and culture that mixes rhythms, styles, dance routines and has a defined aesthetic, went from using social networks to support…
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Ghost Army
Read more: Ghost ArmyThe Ghost Army had one goal: Deceive Hitler’s forces and their allies. Credited with fine-tuning the ancient art of deceptive warfare, the American military units of the Ghost Army used inflatable tanks and trucks to cloak the true size and…