Research Area: (Topic released at tournament)
Music, Culture and Politics
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- 'Very cool': The 70s Afro-rock genre enjoying a surprising rebirth
- When devising her third studio album, Sampa the Great looked to the niche, brief musical movement that ignited her birth country more than 50 years ago.
- Zamrock Before Zamrock: A Guide to the Early Sounds of Zambia’s Copperbelt
- In 1970s Zambia, young bands armed with fuzzy, distorted guitars and flared bellbottoms built their own rock revolution in the Copperbelt. “Zamrock,” as it was later named, emerged from a moment when music became a vehicle for liberation and modern identity.
- Ireland’s basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck
- A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a week for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery?
- Did the SABC ‘change tack’ on local music quotas?
- The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has commended the SABC on its decision to raise the quota for South African music played on its stations to 90%. But in one of its own documents, published in the Government Gazette in March, it quotes the SABC saying a suggested 70% quota was too high and could lead to loss of audiences.
- How The South Korean Government Made K-Pop A Thing
- In the late '90s, when Asia went through a huge financial crisis, South Korea's leaders decided to use music to improve its image and build its cultural influence. So the country's government poured millions of dollars into forming a Ministry of Culture with a specific department devoted to K-pop.
Pre-released Motion #2:
Sports teams should not be allowed to advertise gambling platforms on their playing kit
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