Tag: DIY

  • Pass-The-Aux

    Pass-The-Aux

    The dominant story of music culture today is one of unprecedented access: anyone can produce, anyone can distribute, anyone can reach an audience. What that story obscures is the simultaneous erosion of the conditions under which musical communities have historically formed—new relationships between people and places, and shared forms of memory that take time to…

  • DIY Cultural Diplomacy

    DIY Cultural Diplomacy

    Cultural diplomacy is typically understood as a professional field concerned with the institutional management of cultural representation: the ways states construct national identity and conduct international exchange through officially sanctioned cultural forms. Yet in practice, many of the relational functions associated with diplomacy – mediation across difference, the coordination of translocal networks, and the negotiation…