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How Greenpeace Is Using Non-Static Music To Make Digital Activism More Engaging
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While there are those who say that the era of musical protest is over, an agency of music hackers has been collaborating with Greenpeace to create interactive digital music as a means of protesting Shell's oil drilling in the arctic. Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer In recent years non-static music formats have really started taking off in the form of interactive albums, dynamic music-centric games, so-called ‘location aware’ albums, Native Instruments’ recently launched Stems, and many others. Now, an agency of music hackers ...
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Union Sues Universal, Sony, WMG, Others For Failing To Fund Musician's Pensions
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The American Federation of Musicians pension fund is suing Atlantic Records, Hollywood Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Brothers Records for failing to make pension fund contributions. A lawsuit filed in New York today by The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) claims that all three major label groups have failed to make pension fund payments due from foreign audio streams and foreign and domestic ringbacks. Named in the suit were Atlantic Records, Hollywood Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal ...
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Artists And Performance Royalties: Time For A Solution
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Followers of the Future of Music Coalition know that they have long supported a public performance right for AM/FM radio that would pay artists when their music is played on over-the-air. This right already exists for digital radio platforms like Pandora and SiriusXM. Yet massive companies like iHeart Media, Cumulus and Entercom are exempt due to a loophole in US law. Guest Post by Casey Rae on Future of Music Coalition Followers of our work already know that FMC has long supported a public performance right for AM/FM radio that would pay artists when their music is ...
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Support Jazz in Philadelphia... Win a Tablet!
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All About Jazz
Since the Fall of 2014, Philadelphia Jazz Project and our partner, Jazz Near You / All About Jazz have been engaged in a campaign to remind Jazz fans of the vibrancy of the music, as well as introduce new audience members to the wonders of Jazz & Grown Folks Music. Our goal is to develop a mailing list of 100,000 people. We’ve been facilitating a monthly raffle of a digital tablet. You know, an iPad or a WinBook or some ...
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Composer And Jazz Supporter Andrea Clearfield Actively Involved In Campaigns For Nepal Earthquake Relief
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Victor L. Schermer
Celebrated composer Andrea Clearfield has written important musical compositions based on the long and vital tradition of music in Nepal, where she has traveled, transcribed and documented indigenous folk music and made many friends. (In the photograph on the right, on a recent trip there, she is recording Nepalese composer, Tashi Tsering.) A long-time resident of Philadelphia, Clearfield has for several decades run a music and arts salon which has featured hundreds of jazz musicians including Tom Lawton, Mary Ellen ...
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All In Favor Of A Willis Conover Stamp, Say Aye
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
An international campaign is underway to win national recognition for Willis Conover, the Voice Of America broadcaster who sent American jazz to millions of listeners around the world. A petition drive is aimed at persuading the United States Postal Service to issue a stamp honoring Conover (1920-1996). Efforts to win him a posthumous Presidential Medal Of Freedom have yet to yield results. Admirers established a Conover Facebook page in 2010, but recognition by the US government has been limited to ...
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Recording Academy Reorganizes To Offer Stronger Grassroots Activism For Music Creators
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Yesterday morning, The Recording Academy announced it will merge it's Advocacy and Membership divisions in an effort to enhance the grassroots advocacy happening on behalf of music creators at a local level. The merge will allow the music community a direct line to approach Congress with an informed & unified voice at a time where effective communication on behalf of creators is critical. With several pro-creator bills in front of Congress and the House Judiciary Committee conducting its review of current ...
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Google, Amazon, Pandora, NPR Unite To Fight Better Pay For Musicians
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A coalition of lobbying groups and large corporations have united to fight efforts to that would raise payments to musicians and creators from broadcast radio and online music services. The movement to increase payments to creators and revamp antiquated copyright laws has been gathering momentum with new legislation filed, reviews underway by key regulatory bodies and in the courts. So, it was only a matter of time before the companies that would have to pay those higher rates joined together to ...
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