People

Summer break …

The magpie team is taking a few weeks to recharge, reevaluate and refresh. Over the summer we’ll be updating the Agenda pages and the Opportunities listings as information comes in, and we will continue with our social media posts to [ … ]

Music

‘World music’: useful gateway term or controversial stereotype?

There really is no ‘world music’. It’s a marketing term created by the music industry to help sell non-Western music to Western buyers. In that respect, it’s proved a useful way of introducing artists from elsewhere to consumers in the [ … ]