Tag: Hip-Hop
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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…
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Music production is one of the fastest growing cultural practices in Europe. However, the way we congregate around music is not diversifying accordingly. Dominant policy responses have been based around the advocacy for nightlife and live venues: spaces that play a significant role in the development of contemporary music culture, but which increasingly fixate development…
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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…