A multi-stakeholder network :
programmers,
producers,
labels,
bookers,
managers,
artists…
More than
200 members
In France and
internationaly
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Network meeting on March 8
With its network expanding internationally, and particularly in Africa, Zone Franche had the idea of offering a forum for dialogue and cooperation with its members on the African continent. HOW CAN MUSIC PROFESSIONALS ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT BE STRUCTURED AND COOPERATE ?
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The association
The Zone Franche association was founded in 1990, when the encounter between traditional oral music and the sounds of globalization was creating new languages and soundscapes. Today, 219 structures are federated around professional and political issues.
A network
professional
Zone Franche is a cross-disciplinary organization that brings together all categories of players in the sector : festivals, venues, labels and publishers, artists’ representatives, media, cultural associations, trade shows, and more. Although incorporated in France, the network has an international dimension, with members on every continent.
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Music and
world cultures
World music is the focal point of the network’s members, whatever their activities.
All share the same passion for this music, whether “learned” or popular, ethnic or mixed, sacred or secular, oral or written, performed by professional or amateur musicians.
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The missions
As stated in its articles of association, the network’s actions contribute to the development of World Music on an international level, particularly in French-speaking countries. It’s a place for initiative, reflection, sharing of experience, exchange of information, cooperation and pooling of resources around new projects, and a laboratory for new ideas.
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Zone Franche presents :
#AuxSons,
collaborative webmedia
Zone Franche supports the online weekly #AuxSons dedicated to music and vibrations from around the world : the webmedia #AuxSons(www.auxsons.com) offers an innovative and creative approach, militant and supportive, to give new visibility to music, cultures and news from around the world. Faced with ever-decreasing musical diversity in the press, on radio and on television, #AuxSons highlights the artists who inhabit our planet and fill it with their creativity, the diversity of their cultures, the sound of their languages and instruments, etc.…
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