Appendix 6 - International Music Council

Classical – Distribution Range 2.8:
10 years of permanence, new versions recorded and reported in most of the items. It must
be amply known in all media ambits in which music converges.
Gem – Distribution Range 5.5:
More than 15 years rating, national and international renown, a minimum of 10 recordings
in different countries.
Scheme in the big blackboard at the hall of the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de
Música (Music Authors and Composers Society)
This Mexican society gives the following benefits according to the pyramid range: Health
and demise expenses, seniority rights, fiscal counseling, discounts, and voting rights in
general assemblies.
This regulation discriminates against all non-commercial musical genres.
5. The tendency to favour a uniform and non-pluralistic interpretation of the notion of
identity hindering the manifold and free expression of cultural diversity.
• Cite examples of government promulgation of a single musical or cultural identity
and any associated constraint on other musical or cultural identities.
There is not any official promulgation of this type. Instead, the Constitution and Education
laws in almost all of the Latin American countries, decree that the State must protect
cultural diversity, with a specific emphasis on Indigenous culture, inasmuch as it belongs to
a national identity.
• Cite examples of similar promulgation by the citizenry or sections of the citizenry.
There are no groups opposed to musical diversity.
• Does it appear that in your region there are some states that are less likely to ratify
the UNESCO Convention for cultural diversity if issues of internal cultural
diversity or open cultural borders are pressed?
There are several evidences which make us think that most of Latin American and
Caribbean countries would ratify the Convention. These are the following:
a) The plentiful cultural diversity that characterize the whole region and the presence
of Indigenous groups and other marginalized ethnics.
b) The United States is the only country in our continent that is strongly opposed to
this Convention, so it might be ratified in order to avoid that country’s cultural
oppression.
c) There are several civil society organizations against the Free Commerce
Agreements.
d) All Latin American and Caribbean countries attended the UNESCO General
Conference and only Honduras and Nicaragua did not vote in favor of the
Convention.
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