Appendix 6 - International Music Council

throughout the world. The Music Exports Group (MEG) – a joint cross-
Government/Industry Forum - has been established.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/creative_industries/exporting_the_creative_industries/creative_e
xports_groups.htm
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has funded a research project, undertaken by
Kingston University's Small Business Research Centre, to look at the problems faced by
small business in the music industry in accessing finance. The report aims to identify the
finance options available, the barriers to accessing these options, and ways in which
industry and Government might best overcome these barriers.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/global/publications/archive_2001/banking_on_hit.htm The
department maintains a living document that serves as Music Money Map, which can help
small and medium enterprises
with finding funding.
2.3 Use of music to alleviate poverty or the conditions
contributing to poverty (Projects)
In Europe, the use of music to alleviate poverty can mainly be found in single projects and
private initiatives of businesses or persons. We didn't find any explicit
big governmental
projects or actions instrumentalizing music in the fight against poverty in Europe.
The transition between
question 2.3 (the use of music to alleviate poverty) and 3 (links
between musical diversity and the promotion of peace) is floating. Actually, any evaluation
on the impact
and the use of music to alleviate poverty and social inequity or injustice
should take into consideration church musics, amateur musics as well as music therapy and
the integration of music in health care, social and youth work, which is, of course, a wide
field and a detailed report of these sectors
would take too much space in this report.
There are a lot of tribute concerts for the benefit of the most diverse persons, groups,
regions and organizations, and on the most diverse occasions, reaching from tribute
concerts for the
victims of the Tsunami catastrophe in Asia to the release of CDs for a good
purpose at Christmas or on other occasions, or just think about the new edition of "Live
Aid" as "Live 8" in July
2005 (s. below).
So, in the following, we present an arbitrarily chosen small selection of very diverse
projects that could be seen as typical examples for a lot of similar activities.
HIP HOP MOBIL, GERMANY
Hip Hop Mobil is a youth project of the Arbeitskreis Medienpädagogik e.V. (working
group media education) in Berlin, supported by the Berlin City Administration's Education
Section for youth and sports, founded in 1993. The Hip Hop Mobil does not make open
youth work; the artists pass on their knowledge and skills. They see the advantage of their
activities in the fact that they are not social workers, which eases the approach to the
youngsters. The artists of the Hip Hop Mobile give workshops in DJ-ing, break-dancing,
rap and graffiti arts in public schools. They also provide a small mobile sound studio for
recordings of young rappers as well as recordings in schools and youth centers. The Hip
Hop mobile cooperates with several crossover projects in- and outside Berlin and on
international level, it is led by active performing MDs, DJs and breakers "from the scene".
Despite the fact that rap music today is accepted as
a contemporary form of black music,
hip hop remains a minority culture that attracts particularly youngsters with a foreign or
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