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A similar law was passed in Venezuela in ~2005. It forced radio stations to play traditional Venezuelan music as a percent of all their airtime. From the only
by juancampa 3y ago
A similar law was passed in Venezuela in ~2005. It forced radio stations to play traditional Venezuelan music as a percent of all their airtime.
From the only article I could find in english [0]:
> The law can make listening to the radio an adventure in dizzying contrasts. One minute a disc jockey is playing American rap, and the next minute it’s flutes and fiddles from the Andean highlands.
It pushed some local artist to get creative and come out with some electronic traditional music, which frakly, sucked.
Oh, and radio stations worked around the required quota by playing the mandated music very late at night.
[0] https://archive.is/TTQjG#selection-1173.443-1173.639 https://archive.is/TTQjG#selection-1173.443-1173.639
- xyzzy_plugh 3y agoCanada already has this law, for as long as I can remember.
- pseudo0 3y agoIt sounds cruel and unusual to torment the population with Nickelback and Justin Bieber.
- busymom0 3y agoAre those considered Canadian content? Correct me if I am wrong, Bieber’s music is produced in the US.
- goosedragons 3y agoIt depends. There's a set of criteria called the MAPL system. it stands for Music, Artist, Performance, Lyrics. If 2 of those 4 things are Canadian then it's considered Canadian content. So if Bieber sings lyrics that he wrote despite being recorded in LA with music by a non-Canadian then its Canadian Content and the radio station can put it towards the quota. There is a similar system for film/TV where having a Canadian director, lead actors, writers,etc gets a certain amount of points and so on.
- 908B64B197 3y agoIt is. According to the government, Justing Bieber signing about “Georgia Peaches” and consuming drugs in California counts as Canadian Music and Culture (he was born in Canada). It's interesting to consider Justin Bieber's houses right here in California were purchased in part with Canadian government subsidies [0]. [0] https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/justin-bieber-house https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/justin-bieber-house
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoOr The Band, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Shania Twain, Nelly Furtado, Alanis Morisette, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot...
- refurb 3y agoA lot of those artists don’t count as Canadian content because the producer was American. Musician Bryan Adams has been a vocal opponent of CanCon rules since the 1990s, and it’s largely due to the fact that the federal government keeps ruling that his songs aren’t actually Canadian. https://nationalpost.com/news/extremely-canadian-media-that-ottawa-doesnt-consider-cancon/wcm/4ddb8bd9-0c3f-42e5-b070-3e58955a639d/amp/ https://nationalpost.com/news/extremely-canadian-media-that-...
- bryanrasmussen 3y agodoes it need to be Canadian all the way through then? any hint of the non-Canadian shall pollute the result.
- ch4s3 3y agoDepends on the Neil Young album.
- int_19h 3y agoHow about Unleash the Archers?
- jszymborski 3y agoI think it's an important distinction that the requirement is for Canadian content, not "traditional" Canadian content.
- alienthrowaway 3y ago> It pushed some local artist to get creative and come out with some electronic traditional music, which frakly, sucked You gotta start somewhere. I lived through a similar transition in a different country, I hated the law at the time for the same reasons. However, it lit a fire under the local music industry which now supports more artistes than before. The music now sucks much less, and the local subgenres are unique and wouldn't otherwise exist.
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- kranke155 3y agoYep his line of argument is lazy. This was how France rebuilt its national cinema. Quotas work.
- osigurdson 3y ago>> You gotta start somewhere Such a strange concept. People like songs from "Region A" but we in "Region B" and want people to like songs from our own region. We do this by restricting access to "Region A"'s songs, not by making better songs in "Region B".
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- agentofoblivion 3y agoEven beyond the treatment, the whole idea that you could not like the consumption preferences of individuals, and then game the system by mandating more of what you wished people liked is so dystopian.
- George83728 3y agoTBQH the flutes and fiddles sounds more interesting than homogeneous ubiquitous commercial pop culture.
- osigurdson 3y agoNot nice to see that we are following in the footsteps of Venezuela. Beautiful country and great people obviously, but not exactly known for its alignment with free and democratic principles.