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Technologies and media
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 Posted: 06-11-2008Music the artform and artists
Cameroon: Musicians vow to treat pirates as thieves
Musical artists in the Littoral have sworn to treat anyone found with a pirated CD worse than an armed robber.
Source: The Post (Buea)

 Posted: 11-11-2008Music the artform and artists
Angola: Urban music instrument gets culture and arts award
The homage to the Angolan urban popular instrumental music topped the gala for delivery of the National Prize of Culture and Arts held at Cine Tropical, in Luanda.
Source: Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

 Posted: 11-11-2008Music the artform and artists
Botswana: Promoter brings summer music festival to Gaborone
Are you a middle-income earner who has been struggling to find entertainment that suits your status? Well, the search is over, assures promoter-cum-engineer Lemmy Masekela, who is currently working around the clock to 'bring quality and stable fun to middle-class working people in Botswana.
Source: Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)

 Posted: 11-11-2008Music the artform and artists
IMC-UNESCO International Music Prize Award Miriam Makeba dies at 76
Ms. Makeba was a South African singer whose voice stirred hopes of freedom in her own country even though her music was formally banned by the apartheid authorities she struggled against.
Source: New York Times

 Posted: 11-11-2008Music the artform and artists
A week of the Madrid Jazz Festival: Everything for all tastes
Source: El País

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the artform and artists
South Africa: Whiz kid pianist is off to Boston
Promising young pianist Lelethu Mdunyelwa, 18, is delighted after receiving a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston in the United States for a year.
Source: Cape Argus (Cape Town)

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the artform and artists
Iran preserved its classical music for the post-Khomeyni youth
Source: Le Monde

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the artform and artists
Second-generation hippies
Source: Le Monde

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the artform and artists
Juan Blanco, Cuban composer
Source: El País

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the artform and artists
Concha Buika comes to the London Jazz Festival
The flamenco singer Concha Buika has a lust for life that makes Amy Winehouse look staid.
Source: The Times (UK)

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the artform and artists
Gambia: Top local artistes warms up weekend jam
Several top rated Gambian artistes are currently warming up for a mega concert at the Romana Hotel in Bakau.
Source: The Daily Observer (Banjul)

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the artform and artists
'Afrobeat', elections and loving extasy
Source: El País

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the artform and artists
Bebo and Chucho Valdés, teacher and pupil in the Teatro Real de Madrid
Source: El País

 Posted: 11-11-2008Music the industry
Bold impresario and city opera part ways
In February 2007 New York City Opera staked its future on the vision of Gerard Mortier, a European impresario known for provocative productions and a penchant for shaking things up.
Source: New York Times

 Posted: 11-11-2008Music the industry
Indie band turns itself into company instead of signing record deal
An American band has registered itself as a company as an alternative to signing a record deal.
Source: Yahoo! Music

 Posted: 11-11-2008Music the industry
Mortier leaves the New York Opera because of the financial crisis
Source: El País

 Posted: 11-11-2008Music the industry
EMI unveils new divisions
Restructuring at EMI is continuing, with the company splitting its recorded music operations into three main business units: new music, catalog and music services.
Source: Billboard

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the industry
Concert souvenir sales vulnerable in recession
Even if recession-stung music fans continue to pay big bucks to see top touring acts, their free-spending ways won't necessarily continue once they get to the concert.
Source: Reuters

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the industry
Live Nation to sell major label MP3s on artist pages
Live Nation, which has been on a tear recently with major artist signings and its own ticketing system that will soon replace a contract with Ticketmaster, has confirmed that it will sell unprotected MP3s from three of the four major labels.
Source: Wired

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the industry
Bertelsmann triples profit
Bertelsmann AG, the Germany media company, has reported figures for the first nine months of 2008 including a tripling of its net profits to €387 million ($493 million).
Source: Billboard

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the industry
A first semester at - 12%
Source: Musique Info

 Posted: 12-11-2008Music the industry
O2 and Live Nation/Academy Music Group (AMG) announce strategic alliance
O2 and Live Nation/AMG announced a strategic alliance to launch O2 Academy venues across the UK, which are majority owned by Live Nation alongside fellow shareholders, leading UK concert promoters, Metropolis Music and SJM Concerts.
Source: mi2n

 Posted: 11-11-2008Policy, Research and Politics
Conductor defends Russia, to strains of Prokofiev
The conductor Valery Gergiev took the stage in Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, and denounced its “monstrous bombardment” by Georgia.
Source: New York Times

 Posted: 11-11-2008Policy, Research and Politics
Bruce Springsteen celebrates Obama win with new album
The Boss's new release will coincide with the inauguration of America's first black president.
Source: The Guardian (UK)

 Posted: 12-11-2008Policy, Research and Politics
Botswana: Trumpeter Moruakgomo elected Bomu chief
At long last, the Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU) has elected a next executive committee after the old committee was booted out some months ago.
Source: Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)

 Posted: 12-11-2008Policy, Research and Politics
Save small music venues, demands Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey, former lead singer with 1980s band the Undertones and now chief executive of British Music Rights, warned that the 2003 Licensing Act was having a damaging effect on small pubs, clubs and bars wanting to offer live music.
Source: The Independent (UK)

 Posted: 12-11-2008Policy, Research and Politics
Obama may fight media concentration, expand access to internet
President-elect Barack Obama will try to use his office to hinder media concentration and to increase local TV news coverage, objectives that have stirred resistance from industry groups.
Source: Bloomberg

 Posted: 12-11-2008Policy, Research and Politics
Spanish artists remember Salvador Allende
Source: El País

 Posted: 11-11-2008Music education
Building the music school of the future
Valencia, Spain will soon be home to a $145 million school of rock (and pop and jazz) from the Boston-based Berklee College of Music, which hopes to extend its successful contemporary music training program to European shores.
Source: Wired

 Posted: 11-11-2008Technologies and media
Techno-alchemy at the opera
A watery reflection ripples beneath a boat gliding along the stage. Soldiers march over a field of grass. The blades rustle. Fire flutters above the face of a soprano singing of the burning flame of love.
Source: New York Times

 Posted: 11-11-2008Technologies and media
The most downloaded song on iTunes
Source: El País

 Posted: 11-11-2008Technologies and media
MySpace to develop digital music player?
MySpace, the popular online social network owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, could develop a digital music player in the future, pitting it against Apple Inc's hot-selling iPod.
Source: Billboard

 Posted: 11-11-2008Technologies and media
Apple's music sales up 34% in 2008
While consumer caution may cause a dip in electronic sales this holiday season, Apple wrapped up its fiscal year with a 34% jump in music-related products and services sales.
Source: Billboard

 Posted: 12-11-2008Technologies and media
Dell quells rumors about music player
Dell Inc, struggling to recharge its line-up of consumer product offerings, has indicated that a digital music player is not in the computer maker's near-term plans despite speculation that such a product is in the works.
Source: Billboard

 Posted: 12-11-2008Technologies and media
Nearly 25 percent of Japanese internet users accessed iTunes in August
comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, released a study of music-related sites in Japan finding that nearly 40 percent of the Japanese online population visited an entertainment music site in August. The study also revealed that Japan recorded the highest penetration of users of Apple iTunes software during the month, when compared with the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Source: mi2n

 Posted: 11-11-2008The rest
Colombian rocker Juanes set to rule Latin Grammys
Now that voting has closed, it's time to predict the winners of the Latin Grammy Awards, which will take place in Houston.
Source: Reuters

 Posted: 12-11-2008The rest
Obama's top ten
Source: El País