Podcasts about Sound Diplomacy

Explore how Fort Worth, Texas has become a global model for music-driven tourism. Mark is joined by Bob Jameson, CEO of Visit Fort Worth, and Shain Shapiro, Founder of Sound Diplomacy, to discuss strategies that blend music and cultural policy to elevate tourism, economic growth, and quality of life. Learn how data-informed insights, initiatives like the Fort Worth Music Office, and support for local artists are transforming Fort Worth into a cultural hub.

Send us a textIn conversation with Prarthana Sen and Vishruti Bindal, the founders of Neon Culture and driving forces behind the Deccan Alternative Music Conference (DAMC).Prarthana Sen and Vishruti Bindal bring a wealth of experience and passion to India's independent music landscape, making significant strides toward fostering a more inclusive and innovative industry. Prarthana, formerly with Sofar Sounds, played a pivotal role in building global communities and providing indie artists with an intimate, impactful platform to showcase their talent. As one of the founding members of Music Tech India—and notably the only woman in the founding team—she has championed innovation and equity in music tech and indie spaces alike.Vishruti, a multi-faceted music business professional has worked across audio engineering, music curation, artist management, education, and music supervision. She currently serves as an instructor at Berklee, teaching the Global Emerging Markets and Music Cities Policy module, and as Project Manager at Sound Diplomacy's Momentual. Vishruti led the Bengaluru Music City analysis in 2021, creating the city's only primary data source for music, and spearheaded the Music Cities European Exchange 2023 in collaboration with the EU Commission.In this episode, we explore the remarkable journey of these two trailblazing women, the inception of Neon Culture, and their vision for DAMC. They share insights into their respective career trajectories, their dedication to community building and advocacy, and how they're shaping Neon Culture to amplify independent voices.Join us as we discuss the origins of DAMC, its transformative role in India's music industry, and what to expect from its second edition in Kochi this February 7th and 8th, 2025.For more details about DAMC, visit www.deccanalt.in. For any other query, please write into hello@lextalkmusic.com.This podcast is purely for informational purposes and should not be construed as legal advice. Kindly consult a legal practitioner for specific advice on legal issues/ disputes. © Sandhya Surendran, 2025. All rights reserved.

Today, the Spotlight is going to shine a little differently. Instead of a single guest, we will have three segments dealing with the importance of local music scenes.Our first guest is Shain Shapiro. Shain is a thought leader working at the intersection of music, culture, and urban policy. His book, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better, came out last year on Repeater Books. Shain has defined a new way to think about the value of music and the creative economy in cities and places. He is the founder and chairman of Sound Diplomacy, a global research and strategy consultancy that demonstrates the impact of the creative industries on community development and economic growth. He is also the founder and executive director of the not-for-profit global Center for Music Ecosystems, where he collaborates with leaders and policymakers to foster policies that lead to social and economic development at local, national, and global levels.Our second segment features trumpeter and composer Thomas Marriott, who takes us through the modern history of the Seattle jazz scene, with its current challenges and opportunities.We end with Seattle House Mafia, a three-member DJ collective that tell tales of the evolution of Seattle's dance music scene.If you enjoy this episode, please let us know, and support live music wherever you are.–Dig DeeperVisit Shain Shapiro at shainshapiro.com and follow him on LinkedInVisit Thomas Marriot at thomasmarriott.net and follow him on Facebook and YouTubeVisit Seattle House Mafia at seattlehousemafia.com and follow them on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter (X), and YouTubeDig into this episode's complete show notes at spotlightonpodcast.com–• Did you enjoy this episode? Please share it with a friend! You can also rate Spotlight On ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.• Subscribe! Be the first to check out each new episode of Spotlight On in your podcast app of choice.• Looking for more? Visit spotlightonpodcast.com for bonus content, web-only interviews + features, and the Spotlight On email newsletter. You can also follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Mastodon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, the Spotlight is going to shine a little differently. Instead of a single guest, we will have three segments dealing with the importance of local music scenes.Our first guest is Shain Shapiro. Shain is a thought leader working at the intersection of music, culture, and urban policy. His book, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better, came out last year on Repeater Books. Shain has defined a new way to think about the value of music and the creative economy in cities and places. He is the founder and chairman of Sound Diplomacy, a global research and strategy consultancy that demonstrates the impact of the creative industries on community development and economic growth. He is also the founder and executive director of the not-for-profit global Center for Music Ecosystems, where he collaborates with leaders and policymakers to foster policies that lead to social and economic development at local, national, and global levels.Our second segment features trumpeter and composer Thomas Marriott, who takes us through the modern history of the Seattle jazz scene, with its current challenges and opportunities.We end with Seattle House Mafia, a three-member DJ collective that tell tales of the evolution of Seattle's dance music scene.If you enjoy this episode, please let us know, and support live music wherever you are.–Dig DeeperVisit Shain Shapiro at shainshapiro.com and follow him on LinkedInVisit Thomas Marriot at thomasmarriott.net and follow him on Facebook and YouTubeVisit Seattle House Mafia at seattlehousemafia.com and follow them on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter (X), and YouTubeDig into this episode's complete show notes at spotlightonpodcast.com–• Did you enjoy this episode? Please share it with a friend! You can also rate Spotlight On ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.• Subscribe! Be the first to check out each new episode of Spotlight On in your podcast app of choice.• Looking for more? Visit spotlightonpodcast.com for bonus content, web-only interviews + features, and the Spotlight On email newsletter. You can also follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Mastodon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Looking back through history, it is obvious that the presence of music has had a profound impact on the daily lives of humans, our cultural rituals, and the evolution of civilization as a whole. Yet in public discourse, we still tend to separate conversations about music from those about civics or politics. We frame music as a product for entertainment when in reality the practice of music is deeply tied to the way our communities are structured and function. Shain Shapiro is the director of the global nonprofit Center for Music Ecosystems, and author of This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better. In his book, Shapiro examines the way music affects the building, managing, and governing of a city. Told through personal stories from cities around the world — including London, Melbourne, Nashville, Austin, and Zurich — This Must Be the Place demonstrates how integral music is to everyday life, yet how consistently music is ignored in public policy. Specifically, Shapiro references the transformative role that artists and musicians played in revitalizing elements of our post-pandemic world. In addition to spotlighting the connection between music and building cities, This Must be the Place serves as a guide and toolkit for music enthusiasts, artists, and activists who seek to utilize music as a tool for reinventing their community. Join Shain Shapiro at Town Hall, for an examination of the way music informs the building of a city, and how we can use music to strengthen our communities going forward. Shain Shapiro, Ph.D. is one of the world's leading music and cultural policy thinkers. He is the founder and chairman of economics consultancy Sound Diplomacy, founder and director of the global nonprofit Center for Music Ecosystems and author of This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better. Shain has pioneered the work of music cities and music ecosystem policy, where music is written into how cities and places plan and invest in their future. Gregory Scruggs is a Seattle-based journalist. He is a correspondent for leading international cultural magazine Monocle and also works on the features desk at The Seattle Times. His reporting on how public policy impacts music scenes have been published in outlets such as The New York Times, Bloomberg CityLab, VICE, Next City, Seattle Weekly, and The Stranger.   Buy the Book This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better Third Place Books

Our host Adrian Ellis speaks with Shain Shapiro, one of the world's leading music policy thinkers and advocates, founder of Sound Diplomacy, director of the Center for Music Ecosystems, and author of This Must be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better. They discuss the role of music in the urban ecosystem, what a city's music strategy can be, and the ‘edge' music has as an urban policy tool.ReferencesShain Shapiro Website: https://www.shainshapiro.com/Sound Diplomacy: https://www.sounddiplomacy.com/This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better: https://www.shainshapiro.com/bookCenter for Music Ecosystems: https://www.centerformusicecosystems.com/Global Leaders Institute: https://www.globalleadersinstitute.org/Global Leaders Institute Course led by Shain Shapiro: https://www.globalleadersinstitute.org/blog-post/what-is-a-music-city/ LinkedInsShain Shapiro: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shainhouse/Sound Diplomacy: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sound-diplomacy/Center for Music Ecosystems: https://www.linkedin.com/company/centerformusicecosystems/Shain Shapiro BioShain Shapiro is a globally recognised thought leader at the convergence of music, culture and urban policy. This is showcased in his debut book, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better.  Shain has defined a new way to think about the value of music in cities and places and through it, influenced over 120 cities and places to invest in music and culture as founder and executive chairman of Sound Diplomacy and founder and executive director of the not-for-profit global Center for Music Ecosystems.  He has authored authoritative reports on the role of music in cities, tourism, the night time economy, real estate and recovery, including the most extensive guide to music and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ever written, in partnership with the United Nations. He has spoken at hundreds of global conventions, such as SXSW and the UN World Urban Forum and delivered the first ever TEDx talk on music's role in cities. He is also the recipient of Folk Alliance International's Spirit of Folk Award in 2022.  Shain holds a PhD from the University of London and lives in East London, and is leading a module on music policy at the Harvard-affiliated Global Leaders Institute. He has also authored a course with Berklee College of Music on international music export, and helped create the Momentum Music Fund in England.

Kaip muzika gali padaryti miestą saugesnį ar sveikesnį? Kaip ji gali prisidėti prie tvarios miesto plėtros? Šiandien šiomis temomis paskaitoje „Kaip muzika padeda miestams augti?“ kalbėjo muzikos ir kultūros politikos ekspertas, konsultacijų bendrovės „Sound Diplomacy“ įkūrėjas, dr. Shainas Shapiro. Savo idėjomis jis dalinasi ir su LRT KLASIKOS klausytojais.Tęsiasi diskusija kino erdvių Panevėžyje klausimais. „Ar liks kino rodymo vieta Panevėžyje?“, – savo socialiniuose tinkluose klausia kinotyrininkė Lina Kaminskaitė. Nugriovus senąsias kino centro „Garsas“ patalpas, jam buvo suteiktos laikinos patalpos, kurios šiuo metu yra pardavinėjamos, o aiškumo dėl žadėtos kino erdvės Stasio Eidrigevičiaus menų centre nėra. Situaciją komentuoja dr. Lina Kaminskaitė ir Panevėžio miesto savivaldybės administracijos direktorius Tomas Jukna.Ukrainos šiuolaikinio šokio bendruomenė dėl karo neteko daugiau kaip 90 proc. savo narių. Vieni jų išvyko į užsienį, kiti dalyvauja karo veiksmuose fronte, dalis įsitraukė į savanorišką veiklą, tačiau likusieji šokėjai pastebi, kad šokio kaip terapijos formos reikalingumas labai išaugęs. Apie Ukrainos šiuolaikinio šokio sceną su šokėju, kultūros aktyvistu Viktoru Rubanu bei Lietuvos šokio informacijos centro vadove Gintare Masteikaite laidoje „Karo frontas – kultūra“ kalbasi Marius Eidukonis.Šiauliuose meno projektų erdve tapo… garažas. Neįprastoje erdvėje jau atidaryta ir įvairių sričių menininkų paroda. Pasak menotyrininkų, Šiauliams itin trūksta tokių nepriklausomų menininkų iniciatyvų, kurios gimtų neįprastose erdvėse.„Kapinės buvo ta vieta, kurią su tėvais lankydavau nuo vaikystės“, – sako architektė dr. Eglė Bazaraitė, išleidusi knygą „Kapinės už miesto, miške“. Ką reiškia žmogui turėti netoliese palaidotus artimuosius? Kuo lietuviškos kapinės kitokios nei vakarų Europoje? Ar portugalai margina kiaušinius? Pokalbis rubrikoje „Be kaukių“.Ved. Rasa Murauskaitė-Juškienė

Today, we are in Nashville, and we speak with Shain Shapiro - a globally recognised thought leader at the convergence of music, culture and urban policy.  Shain is the CEO of Sound Diplomacy - a global research and strategy consultancy, and he also leads the non-profit Center for Music Ecosystems, which commissions research to help solve local, national and international challenges using music as a tool. Shain has authored reports on the role of music in cities, tourism, the nighttime economy, real estate and recovery, including the most extensive guide to music and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in partnership with the United Nations.  We are talking about his brand-new book, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better, which was published in September 2023.  Note: Unfortunately, there was a very poor Wifi, so please excuse the quality. Show Notes Connect with Shain on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shainhouse/ Sound Diplomacy: www.sounddiplomacy.com  Music Cities Events: www.musiccitiesevents.com His book: This Must Be The Place: https://www.shainshapiro.com/book Show support Please choose one or more of the ‘three ways to support the show'! Subscribe to the podcast. Leave us a review — even one sentence helps! I appreciate your support; it helps the show! Tell your friends about the podcast and musicthinking.com Buy the book The Power of Music Thinking and/or the Jam Cards. The Power of Music Thinking is brought to you by CREATIVE COMPANION specialised in facilitating leaders, teams and organisations in customer experience, change and innovation.  

The founder of Sound Diplomacy, a music industry consulting firm, talks about the groups coming work in Memphis on The Daily Memphian's “On The Record” podcast.

Today on Why Music Matters, I'll be speaking with Shain Shapiro, founder and chairman of the economic consultancy Sound Diplomacy, director of the global nonprofit Center for Music Ecosystems, and author of the forthcoming book This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better. Shain is a serious music-lover, who turned his passion for music into pioneering work on how music can radically transform not just the people who live in a city, but that city itself. Over the past decade, Shain has reimagined the way in which all of us should view the convergence of music, culture and urban policy. He's an expert on music's ability to speak to our better selves, and has keen insight to share on how those better selves might build better cities. Thanks for joining us on Why Music Matters.

Nashville. Seattle. New Orleans. These are but a few examples of cities that have organically developed incredible music scenes. But in fact, any city can encourage their local music scene so residents can benefit culturally, economically and in a host of other ways. Today we speak with Shain Shapiro who helps cities understand these benefits and create the right policies to enable them. Shain is the founder of Sound Diplomacy and a globally recognised thought leader at the convergence of music, culture and urban policy. He has influenced over 100 cities and places to invest in music and culture as part of their overall growth strategy. He is also the co-founder of Music Cities Convention, bringing together the music industry with city planners, developers, policy makers and executives. His debut book, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better, is due out on Repeater Books in September, 2023. We reached him in London, England. Learn more about Shain's work at sounddiplomacy.com & centerformusicecosystems.com and follow him on Twitter @shainshapiro ... Beatseeker has been selected by Feedspot as one of the Top Music Technology Podcasts on the web: https://blog.feedspot.com/music_technology_podcasts/ Learn more: beatseeker.fm Insta: @beatseekerpod Twitter: @beatseekerpod Facebook: facebook.com/beatseekerpod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beatseeker Beatseeker is sponsored by the Boombox Music League: boomboxsoftware.com

DHI President and CEO, Chad Emerson, sits down with Ryan Murphy, the general manager of the Orion Amphitheater & Apollo South. They discuss how Sound Diplomacy played a part in the growth of the music scene in Huntsville and how the music scene can play a role in economic growth.

Shain is the Founder and Chairman of Sound Diplomacy, the leading global advisor on growing music and night time economies in cities and places.He has defined a new way to think about the value of music and through it, influenced over 100 cities and places to invest in music and culture as part of overall growth strategy. He is also the co-founder of Music Cities Convention, the world's largest event, bringing together the music industry with city planners, developers, policy makers and executives. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the not-for-profit global Center for Music Ecosystems, launched in 2021.

Has music found fresh importance in the pandemic era, via its impact on health and wellness? Musician and researcher, Hannah Davis, Goldsmiths' Prof. Lauren Stewart, IWAMD's Dr Hilary Moss, and Shain Shapiro, Sound Diplomacy-founder, join Luke Clancy to discuss. (First broadcast 270221)

Andrew Teacher, founder of Blackstock Consulting [www.blackstock.co.uk] is joined by Wesley Ankrah, founder at SeerBridge, Shain Shapiro, founder at Sound Diplomacy, and Vestalia Chilton, director of Kensington and Chelsea Art Week to discuss the higher level of policy focus on art and culture that is critical to bring about social value creation.

Has music found fresh importance in the pandemic era, via its impact on health and wellness? Musician and researcher, Hannah Davis, Goldsmiths' Prof. Lauren Stewart, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance's Dr Hilary Moss, and Shain Shapiro, founder and CEO of Sound Diplomacy dig into the conversation.

Today, we switch gears and talk about the music industry and how COVID has affected music artists. Shain Shapiro, founder of Sound Diplomacy, talks about the the business side of the music industry while Jimmy Nutt, with Nutthouse Recording, shares the struggles the artists face.

Humans are pack animals and urban centres are a hub for interaction, so with a ‘post-COVID' world looking uncertain, and tiered lockdowns further threatening the vibrancy of our urban centres, our response in terms of high street regeneration is becoming more and more critical. If the fundamental requirements of our urban centres are to host and sustain these delicate ecosystems of interaction, is their inherent social value uppermost in our thoughts? If it is, where do we now see the opportunities for maximising it through every move we make, as we look to ‘Build Back Better/Greener' and revive these spaces for the long term? How do we ensure that the delicate balance of society and its role in placemaking is installed for the benefit of our town centres? We bring together panellists Dr William Bird, Intelligent Health; Paul Hanegraaf, Milligan and Shain Shapiro, Sound Diplomacy, Planning Associate and High Streets Task Force Expert, Nicole Roe and Partner Stephen Tucker (chair) to discuss. 

In this episode, Dave Haslam, DJ and Author of Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs and Music Venues, leads a panel on the future of nightlife. He is joined by Marti Burgess, owner of Lakota (Club) and chair of the Bristol @ Night Panel; Shain Shapiro, CEO of Sound Diplomacy; and Rebecca Swarray aka DJ Mix-Stress, the founder and curator of RebeccaNeverBecky. In this discussion, they explore the huge economic benefits of nightlife, stress why the Government needs to recognise its importance, and discuss how the pandemic has forced club owners to pivot and find new ways to use their venues. 

Shain Shapiro is the founder and CEO of Sound Diplomacy, the leading global advisor on growing music and night time economies in cities and places. "We underestimate the power that music has, and yet we're using its power every day without recognising it. And it doesn't matter what your political affiliation is - you're uniting people through the power of music." The post 93. Shain Shapiro – Sound Diplomacy appeared first on MTF Labs.

Today, we have Founder & Group CEO of Sound Diplomacy, Shain Shapiro. Shain has an interesting rap sheet… he holds a PhD in cultural policy, is an accomplished speaker — having delivered the first ever Ted Talk on ‘Music Cities' and pioneered the model linking music to urban policy that is being replicated all over the world. We chat about his path in music and how newcomers can stand out and build a network from anywhere in the world.

In the final episode of Season One of Audio Matters, we discuss our guests Rev. Moose, Executive Director/Co-Founder of NIVA (National Independent Venue Association) and Managing Partner/Co-Founder at Marauder, and Shain Shapiro, Founder & Group CEO at Sound Diplomacy, discuss the cultural heartbeat of a city and the Save our Stages initiative. We explore the importance of small independent performance venues for music, performing arts and artists and how a local creative scene is a strategic factor to deliver economic, social and cultural growth for communities.

This week on the Innovating Music Podcast, we discuss innovation in public policy with Shain Shapiro. He is the founder and CEO of Sound Diplomacy, an organization that works together with a wide range of clientele from city councils to property developers and more, in order to help music in cities thrive. We discuss music communities in cities as ecosystems and how public policy can support and protect them. We also look at the effects the COVID-19 crisis has had on the music industry and what they mean for the future.

On this episode of The Public Radio Hour, we learn how a Little Orange Fish is battling mental health challenges in our community. We'll also learn about David Person's Healthy Alabama Podcast. Nadia Niakossary with Sound Diplomacy stops by to give us an update on Huntsville's Local Music Audit. And we close our our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month with a segment from Latino USA on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Find more info about Little Orange Fish's 'Feelings are Real: Expressions in Laughter' event on October 18th Download Preliminary Results of Huntsville's Local Music Survey as PDF

On this week's show we welcome new collaborating producer Rick Bradshaw and he has a chat with Shawn Patrick from “The 7-2” talent development company and he is also over artist development at Mid-City.  They chat about the Sound Diplomacy music audit and coming up playing music in Huntsville. Jque spins some local favorites from Chillcity, Victoria Jones, Leroy Marv, Vanessa Cardwell, and she’s featuring a special Local Aliens 4 Remix from DJ Siza Hanz.  Spice Radio Huntsville brings us music from gigging groups including Them Damn Dogs, Jonny & The Black Frames, Wanda Weslowoski and Tyler AK. Catch the show every Saturday night at 9pm on WLRH 89.3 FM/HD  Get the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Googleplay or download it directly at WLRH.org#wlrhloveslocal #localmusic #valleysounds 

According to Julián Guerrero Orozco, Vice-President of Tourism, PROCOLOMBIA : “Music is one of the greatest motivations for tourism. Whether live or recorded, experiencing the music of the world is celebrating its rich diversity and talent, promoting intercultural dialogue and encouraging exchange.” Music is one of the biggest motivations for tourism. Whether live or recorded, experiencing the music of the world’s cultures is celebrating their rich diversity and talent, as well as promoting intercultural dialogue and exchange. Music has the power to connect the physical journey with the intellectual and emotional experience of travelers to make their trips meaningful, memorable and transformative. A music and tourism partnership also holds investment and innovation opportunities, and potential for decent employment. In this #Travelcast, I had the opportunity to interview Dr Julia Jones, CEO of Found in Music. We spoke on the subject: Is music the new gastronomy? UNWTO is co-author together with Colombia and Sound Diplomacy of a forthcoming white paper that explores and celebrates the links between music and tourism. Its purpose is to identify areas for discussion, raise questions and suggest possible ways for developing musical tourism products and using music to its full potential to promote destinations, brands and companies.

According to Julián Guerrero Orozco, Vice-President of Tourism, PROCOLOMBIA : “Music is one of the greatest motivations for tourism. Whether live or recorded, experiencing the music of the world is celebrating its rich diversity and talent, promoting intercultural dialogue and encouraging exchange.” Music is one of the biggest motivations for tourism. Whether live or recorded, experiencing the music of the world’s cultures is celebrating their rich diversity and talent, as well as promoting intercultural dialogue and exchange. Music has the power to connect the physical journey with the intellectual and emotional experience of travelers to make their trips meaningful, memorable and transformative. A music and tourism partnership also holds investment and innovation opportunities, and potential for decent employment. In this #Travelcast, I had the opportunity to interview Dr Julia Jones, CEO of Found in Music. We spoke on the subject: Is music the new gastronomy? UNWTO is co-author together with Colombia and Sound Diplomacy of a forthcoming white paper that explores and celebrates the links between music and tourism. Its purpose is to identify areas for discussion, raise questions and suggest possible ways for developing musical tourism products and using music to its full potential to promote destinations, brands and companies.

On this week's show, Brett Tannehill chats with Dennis Madsen about the Sound Diplomacy music audit results and the creation of the new Huntsville Music Office.   Jeremy Michael Durm has local favorites from:  features music from groups performing around town including: Wade Brown, Chelsea, Who?, Zami Marie, and Canita Rogers.  Tim Miller from In tune with TMill has music from groups performing around town including: Unknown Lyric, Josh & Judy Allison, and Victoria Jones. Catch the show Saturday night at 9pm on WLRH 89.3 FM/HD  Get the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Googleplay or download it directly at here at WLRH.org#wlrhloveslocal #localmusic #valleysounds 

Holly Hobbs joins the show to talk about ethnomusicology, comparing music and cultural studies in Ireland & New Orleans, plus starting the Hip Hop Archive at Tulane’s Amistad Research Center. We also get into Sound Diplomacy & The New Orleans Music Economy study currently underway.

Can we curate better mixed-use places and communities through the integration of music into our built environment?

Thanks for listening to Back Home: A Music Nova Scotia Podcast! This episode is brought to you in part by FACTOR, the government of Canada and the province of Nova Scotia. Host Dana Beeler talks to Shain Shapiro from Sound Diplomacy about the upcoming Nocturnal Cities Forum Nova Scotia. As well she sits down with the organizers of the Halifax festival United Not Isolated Festival, Martez Wiggins VIDEO LINK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWEF7GYGJPc   Make sure you never miss an episode! We’re on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and of course, you can find us on SoundCloud via our website www.backhomepodcast.com. If you want to submit music to be considered for the podcast just https://podio.com/webforms/11113163/802437 Or send us an email, dana@musicnovascotia.ca!   Back Home Podcast is available on the following platforms: Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/back... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/b... Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWFl... www.backhomepodcast.com

Dr Shain Shapiro is founder and CEO of Sound Diplomacy, bridging the gap between music and the world of policy and urban planning. Sound Diplomacy is the leader of the Music Cities movement, which sees culture built into the urban environment through an integrated music policy. Music is a universal language. While we all have individual tastes and preferences, it's an experience common to everyone. It can aid with early development, rehabilitation and healthy ageing. It's personal benefits are therefore indisputable. A well curated and executed music policy can help attract & retain capital and talent, help build the nigh-time economy and improve tourism. Shain argues that Music Cities need more than just a a policy though; they need someone to promote the cause within the local authority to ensure that it is being thought about & that policy is being enacted. The efficacy of this can be seen in London; Shain believes that the decline of 35-40% of music venues in the capital over the past decade has been halted, (at least in part) due to the appointment of the Mayor's night-czar, Amy Lamé. For developers, music is yet another piece in the puzzle of creating a sense of place that will make the development more deliverable and therefore valuable. For build-to-rent's model, music's role in community building should definitely be considered further. It's important to remember that music (like all arts and cultures) requires a full ecosystem to flourish. Headline acts come from grass-root venue beginnings and those venues need to be encouraged and cultivated. Shain believes that venues with capacity of less than 500 will need to look to multi-use in order to be sustainable as business models. The plurality of buildings could emerge as community centres, tech incubators, yoga studios or many uses. Tech solutions, such as

Panel session "How can small nations, regions and cities use their soft power capital to strengthen global engagement?" and closing remarks from Jenny Scott, Director, British Council Wales From the IWA & British Council event on Thursday 26th April 2018 at Principality Stadium, Cardiff.  - Chair: Sara Pepper, Director of Creative Economy, Cardiff University  - Geraint Talfan Davies, Former Chair, Welsh National Opera  - Shona McCarthy, Chief Executive, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society  - Shain Shapiro, CEO, Sound Diplomacy  - Nic van der Marliere, Representative of the Government of Flanders in London Closing remarks and launch of British Council series Imagining Wales' Global Future  - Jenny Scott, Director, British Council Wales

we kick-off 2018 by looking at the term Music City, its meaning, intent and how such recognitions shape cultural policy in cities. Featuring interviews with Toronto Music Sector Development Officer Mike Tanner and Sound Diplomacy founder Shain Shapiro. Featured music: Wake - "Steppin'" Poddington Bear - "Woop Groove" & "The Window"

It’s very easy to fall into the trap of seeing cities as physical things – a matter of streets and buildings and transport infrastructure. But they’re about more than that: they’re also about the people inside them, and the things that they create. So this week, we’ve decided to get cultured. We talk to Shain Shapiro, director of the consultancy Sound Diplomacy, and founder of the Music Cities Convention. He tells us what makes a music city, and why live performance matters to city life. That’s “sound”. For “vision”, we talk to festival producer and arts professional Sara Doctors, about how the people who re-built Britain’s towns after the Second World War wanted to put public art at the heart of every community – and why it never quite came off. The segment includes discussion of “Madonna’s Tits”, the local name for a pair of Thomas Heatherwicks you can find in the unlikely location of a roundabout in Barking. In our new “your city” segment we hear from Canadian listener Victoria, who tells us what... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.