Since 2014, Hong Kong’s art and music industries have been baptized by a political awakening. Artists like Susi Law got elected into district councils. Law is not one for big speeches and her aural sensitivity could be beneficial to Hong Kong’s political crisis in 2020.
«People in Ghana have gone overboard with religion, politics, and corruption», says FOKN Bois' Wanlov the Kubolor. A critical investigation of the relevance of religion and churches in Ghana.
Country Music has been long associated with a strong focus on its country of origin. When Peter Guyer and Thomas Burkhalter were filming their «Contradict» in Ghana, they discovered that it is very popular in West Africa.
The Nature Loves Courage Festival in Greece foregrounds female-identifying, queer and non-binary artists and contributes to the development of what is known as post-club culture. What can this festival tell us about today's club culture in general?
Georgia's capital Tbilisi has a vivid electronic music scene. Although more and more artists are involved, there are hardly any official live venues in the city. Read Jan Chudozilov's photo series about informal music spaces.
Colonialism isn’t over, it’s just less visible. As a curator of the Berlin-based label Global Pop First Wave, Holger Lund feels entangled in neo-colonial paradoxes. An essay about the westernization of pop music and why its decolonization is inevitable.
Photography is a signifier of time, says our author Sumugan Sivanesan. In his photo series on the 2019 edition of «The Long Now» at Maerz Musik festival, he emphasizes the corporeal relations between performer, audience, and architecture.
Music plays an important role in diaspora communities. But it doesn't just unify its members, it also acts as a tool for political control. A comment on the problematic balance between nationalist propaganda and ethnic identity.
