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Analysis: Culture

Venezuela: The Hip Hop Movement Gets Organized

By Hip Hop Revolucion, Jan 9th 2010

The hip-hop movement congress held in December in Merida, Venezuela (HHR)

Over the 17, 18 and 19 of December the first conference of activists and militants of the Venezuelan Hip Hop movement was held. Convened and organized by the Hip Hop Revolution collective and with the participation of activists from over 8 states from the west of the country, the [congress] discussed and debated the creation of urban art schools, a joint project of the HHR Collective and the Ministry of Communes.

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Venezuela's winning system for saving children through music

By John Terauds - The Star, Oct 18th 2009

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel

Venezuela, awash in natural resources but burdened by intractable urban poverty and violence, has for nearly 35 years been building after-school music programs that currently have an annual enrollment of a quarter-million children and teenagers.

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Music Draws Venezuelan Youth to Revolution

By Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com, Nov 21st 2008

Young people playing as they wait for the concert to start. (Tamara Pearson/Venezuelanalysis)
As 10,000 young people danced the night away in a concert that was part of the closing events of the pro-Chavez electoral campaign, they countered the enduring alienation of capitalism and got sweaty screaming for socialism. Yet something was lacking, something was still the same.

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Rich Nations Copy Venezuela's Anti-Gang Music Schools

By Jorge Silva and Frank Jack Daniel - Reuters, Jun 25th 2008

Venezuela's youth orchestras and choirs have helped thousands of children resist thug life in some of South America's most violent slums, and now wealthy countries are lining up to emulate the system.

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Youth Orchestra of Venezuela's Poor Wows the World

By Ami Albernaz - Christian Science Monitor, Nov 4th 2007

The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, says one musician, plays as if its life depends 'on every note. There's complete passion.' (Nohely Oliveros)
Venezuela's Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra arrives next week at the New England Conservatory. What drives this revolutionary group of musicians?

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Venezuelan Youth Street Culture Festival

By James Suggett - Foreign Policy In Focus, Jun 13th 2007

The gathering is one of a series of “Youth Street Culture Festivals” that take place each month in a different neighborhood of this rapidly transforming, explosively overcrowded, historically agricultural town at the Northern tip of the Andes Mountain range. The purpose, according to José Miguel Jiménez, one of the festival organizers, is “to rescue, bolster, and redefine what is the cultural identity of Venezuela."

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