Music in Germany – Panorama

Lift up your hands! Lift up your legs! And don’t forget to raise your glasses! How the Roma sound has hit Germany – it’s only seconds before the turntables and the dance floors rock.More ...

The C3 Festival in Berlin, Essen and Danzig throws light on the current crossing of styles in “serious” and “popular” music. The result points to open borders.More ...

Through the project “An Instrument for Every Child”, the Ruhr region wanted in its year as Cultural Capital in 2010 to introduce as many primary school children as possible to a musical instrument. Now it means to anchor the initiative in everyday life.More ...

Assessing the impact of “sampling” in legal terms has turned out to be anything but easy.More ...

What can musicians do when nobody wants to buy their records anymore? Just take a glance into the World Wide Web and it’s clear to see: opportunities for becoming famous there have never been greater. But when it comes to making money, that’s when things get difficult.More ...