How Solidarity Economies Can Reshape the Music Industry

What if the way we support artists is broken, but the answers have been with us all along? Today on Next Economy Now, we’re joined by Ethiopian-American vocalist, composer, and cultural activist Meklit Hadero to explore how migration shapes music, why the traditional music industry is collapsing, and how collective economic models could be the key to artists' survival. 

Timestamps:
show intro - 0:00
show begins - 2:03
Meklit's early years - 2:32
becoming a community organizer - 6:19
founding the Movement project - 10:23
pandemic leads to mutual aid organizing - 11:13
the Movement project and solidarity economy - 13:37
learning from immigrant communities - 17:27
Movement podcast and organizing - 18:45
using traditional models - 25:54
using music to build trust and togetherness - 32:06
finding artists for the Movement podcast - 35:16
hopes for impact - 38:36
ways to support the work - 42:44
 

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