Record #:

27718

Author(s):

Vitiello, Chris

Abstract:

The Beat Making Lab is a winner of the 2014 Indie Art Awards. The UNC Chapel Hill group puts on classes, international residencies, runs a community youth center in Chapel Hill, and operates a backpack-sized recording studio. They recently received a one million dollar grant from the State Department to fund their Next Level program which uses popular music and dance to foster diplomatic goodwill and model conflict resolution through collaboration. The group has traveled to Senegal, Panama, Fiji, and Ethiopia teaching hip-hop, making beats, and recording music.

Source:

Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 31 Issue 46, November 2014, p18

Subject(s):

Music in education; Music--Instruction and study; International relations