Stories about Music from August, 2011
Azerbaijan: Facebook hate campaign for ‘consorting’ with the ‘enemy?’
Angered by a photograph of Aynishan Guliyeva, a contestant in this year's national selection for Eurovision, standing next to an Armenian competitor during a recent regional music festival, some youth in Azerbaijan have launched a hate campaign against the singer on the popular social networking site. Created on Monday, the...
Trinidad & Tobago, Bahamas: True Freedom
Is Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel the “new face of freedom”? Trinidadian Attillah Springer contends that “blackness is the prison that black people fear the most”, while Bahamian Nicolette Bethel says: “For true emancipation, we need to believe in something bigger than ourselves…something like truth, or honour, or service, or...
Barbados, Cuba: Two Different Carnivals
Cheese-on-bread! and Havana Times write posts about their respective Carnivals: Barbados’ Crop Over and Santiago de Cuba’s “Proselytizing Carnival”.
Azerbaijan: Eurovision in a non-free country?
A campaign to raise awareness of the plight of political prisoners and restrictions on freedom of assembly in Azerbaijan has been launched by four non-governmental organizations ahead of next year's Eurovision Song Contest to be held in the country's capital, Baku. A video in English detailing the campaign has been...
Bangladesh: 40th Anniversary of The Concert For Bangladesh
The 'Concert For Bangladesh', a benefit concert organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar on August 1, 1971, is not widely known. Bangladeshi bloggers celebrate the 40th anniversary of the epic event and tell the world why it matters for Bangladesh.
Barbados: Crop Over 2011 – Hot or Wet?
Cheese-on-bread! says Barbados is abuzz on this “hot, long, festive weekend…as we move into the final phase of Crop Over”, but warns that “Kadooment Day revelry could be seriously hampered” by a tropical wave heading towards the island.
Trinidad & Tobago: Lights, Camera, Reality Shows!
From Project Runway to So You Think You Can Dance, MEP Caribbean Publishers notices that “Trinidad & Tobago is…ready for its close-up… on American television, at least.”
Mexico: Portrayals of a Culture… of Violence?
Even though other parts of the world are experiencing high levels of violence, Mexico's case attracts our attention with the apparent inability of the government and its institutions to face the epidemic. Do the media: mass and independent, have a part to play in this struggle?
