Quincy Jones goes to Byron Allen’s fourth Annual Oscar Gala to Benefit Children’s Hospital Los Angeles at the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel on Feb. 9, 2020 in Los Angeles. Greg Doherty/Getty Images for Entertainment Studios
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken released the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative on Wednesday (Sept. 27), a globally initiative to boost songs as a polite device to advertise tranquility as well as freedom.
The launch occasion was held at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. Secretary Blinken was signed up with by Harvey Mason, Jr., CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of the Recording Academy; Lyor Cohen, worldwide head of songs for YouTube as well as Google; as well as David M. Rubenstein, chairman of the board at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The occasion included real-time efficiencies by Jamie Barton, GAYLE, Dave Grohl, Mickey Guyton, Herbie Hancock, Christopher Jackson, LADAMA, Aimee Mann, Rakim, Armani White as well as DJ 2-Tone in addition to a video clip message from Bono.
In enhancement, Mason as well as Secretary Blinken granted Quincy Jones the first-ever Peace with Music Award. The honor, a partnership in between the Department as well as the Academy, identifies an American songs sector expert, musician or team that has actually played an essential duty in cross-cultural exchanges as well as whose songs job developments tranquility as well as good understanding around the world.
Jones has actually won 28 Grammy Awards, the 3rd greatest tally of all-time behind Beyoncé as well as classic conductor Sir Georg Solti. In enhancement, he has actually obtained numerous prominent honors from the Recording Academy: a trustees honor in 1989, the Grammy Legends Award in 1991 as well as MusiCares’ Person of the Year honor in 1996. His non-Grammy honors consist of the Jean Hersholt Award from the Motion Picture Academy in 1994 as well as the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001.
The occasion finished with numerous news that, it is really hoped, will certainly form the future of songs diplomacy, varying from public-private collaborations with American songs sector leaders to academic chances for young people around the world.
The Global Music Diplomacy Initiative improves the bipartisan tranquility Through Music Diplomacy Act, which President Joe Biden authorized right into legislation in 2015. It will certainly boost existing U.S. initiatives that include numerous public diplomacy exchange programs making use of songs as a polite device, consisting of American Music Abroad, Arts Envoy, Center Stage, Next Level as well as OneBeat.
Several of the efforts introduced on Wednesday were partnerships with The Recording Academy. “From advocating for the Peace Through Music Diplomacy Act in 2022, to partnering with the U.S. State Department on the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative, the Academy firmly believes that music’s transformative power can be a global force for good,” Mason stated in a declaration. “We’re honored to begin our work with the State Department to promote peace and cross-cultural understanding through music while continuing our mission to lift up music people around the globe.”
“Music reminds us that we have more in common than what separates us,” Cohen included. “It heals us. It unites us. It gets us hyped. … For centuries, music has helped fuel important social and cultural movements. Artists like Aretha Franklin, John Lennon, Kendrick Lamar, and so many more have written songs that bring people together to create understanding and drive peace. This initiative creates a new avenue for us to raise their voices and drive global music diplomacy forward; breaking down cultural barriers and fostering peace through music.”
The Global Music Diplomacy Initiative launch news consist of:
American Music Mentorship Program
This program, a collaboration in between the U.S. Department of State as well as The Recording Academy, will certainly bring worldwide mid-career songs sector specialists, that might consist of music musicians, to the United States for mentorship as well as networking chances. The initial program will certainly be kept in the autumn of 2024.
The effort was established according to the tranquility Through Music Diplomacy Act, which was promoted by The Recording Academy in 2022 at Grammys on the Hill as well as throughout the yearly grassroots District Advocate Day. The regulations was entered legislation in December 2022.
Fulbright-Kennedy Center Visiting Scholar Award in Arts as well as Science
The Fulbright Program, the United States’ front runner worldwide scholastic exchange program, will certainly work together with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to produce a brand-new fellowship chance for international scholars. The brand-new Fulbright-Kennedy Center Visiting Scholar Award in Arts as well as Science will certainly concentrate on the crossway of the arts as well as scientific research, consisting of exactly how the arts can add to specific as well as worldwide wellness as well as wellness as well as the atmosphere. An honor competitors will certainly be introduced this autumn, as well as the Kennedy Center will certainly hold the initial scholar in university year 2024-25.
Boosting English-Language Learning Through Music
Recognizing the tactical relevance of English-language discovering overseas, particularly for young people as well as underserved areas, the Department will certainly integrate songs right into its existing $40 million financial investment in English-language discovering around the world to offer accessibility to English-discovering courses for appealing trainees in between the ages of 13 as well as 20.
The Department will certainly boost more comprehensive worldwide English-language understanding by sustaining Sing Out Loud, a program that supplies sources for mentor English with songs in partnership with American Music Abroad, bringing songs as well as verses right into class throughout the globe.
In enhancement to the Secretary’s news, the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative will certainly consist of configuring all over the world, consisting of:
Arts Envoys to Travel to the Middle East, People’s Republic of China
Hancock, together with Dee Dee Bridgewater as well as the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Ensemble at UCLA, will certainly do in Jordan in October to commemorate the 60th wedding anniversary of the 1963 Jazz Ambassador trip of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Hancock’s trip will certainly after that take a trip to Saudi Arabia for a four-day Arts Envoy program, the initial of its kind in between the United States as well as Saudi Arabia.
From Nov. 9-18, The Philadelphia Orchestra is slated to memorialize the 50th wedding anniversary of its historical 1973 trip of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with set efficiencies as well as residency tasks in numerous cities in the PRC.
Ten American Bands to Travel to 30 Countries Through American Music Abroad
Representing numerous styles, Birckhead, The Beatbox House, The Invisibles, Marielle Kraft, Matthew Whitaker, Pipeline Vocal Project, Raining Jane, Sihasin, Sub-Radio as well as Tap Music Project will certainly take a trip to 30 nations from October with June 2024.
In November, the 2023 American Music Abroad Academy Cleveland will certainly unite young expert artists from the Ukrainian diaspora as well as all over the world for partnership with as well as mentorship chances from American teachers with a concentrate on social conservation with songs.
Next Level to Use Hip-Hop in Nigeria, Bring International Artists to the United States
In September, 4 U.S. hip-hop musicians concentrating on dispute makeover will certainly take a trip to Lagos, Nigeria for a two-week Next Level Academy. In enhancement, 10 worldwide individuals will certainly take a trip to Washington, D.C., as well as New York for a two-week expert growth program on dispute makeover with hip-hop.
Scaling Social Entrepreneurship Projects, Strengthening Creative Economy Through OneBeat
From Nov. 6-20, artists from Ghana as well as Nigeria will certainly collaborate to collaboratively produce as well as talk about exactly how songs can bring individuals with each other with social entrepreneurship tasks as component of the OneBeat program.
Harmundi International Music Summit to Welcome Students from Every Continent
Virtually attaching greater than 60 worldwide trainees from every continent with songs, the Harmundi Summit will certainly offer extreme songs training, cross-cultural partnership, workshop recordins as well as live efficiencies under the mentorship of first-rate artists as well as manufacturers. The Summit, which will certainly occur Nov. 3-5, will certainly be led by graduates of the Department’s exchanges as well as belongs to the Department’s Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund. This fund supplies gives of as much as $10,000 for civil service tasks that make use of the abilities, understanding as well as networks exchange graduates gotten with their exchange experiences.
