WOMEX and its Offspring - Redefining World Music
With Porto Musical, WOMEX introduced its new Offspring concept, working with local partners to tailor an event to the precise needs of a given audience and market.
As the world’s foremost network of world music industry professionals, WOMEX receives numerous invitations each year to enhance, even create events for associations, arts counsels and governmental and nongovernmental initiatives. North and South America, Asia, Africa, Australia – in all parts of the world local organisations are exploring ways to bring the WOMEX philosophy to their own marketplaces. This recognises WOMEX’s unique ability to help educate, forge partnerships, enhance networks – collaborate – and in so doing, help to create innovative approaches to this challenging phase of the music industry.
Increasingly that focus goes beyond WOMEX’s original world music network. Case in point: Porto Musical is not a world music conference. Rock, alternative, independent, techno, hip-hop – these are the areas of operation of the Brazilian and international professionals in attendance, differing significantly from the usual WOMEX remit. It is one more indication of WOMEX’s successful embrace of independent operators in a wide variety of music-related fields and disciplines.
The WOMEX Offspring project seeks to develop an independent music industry model that can travel, one that can be put to use throughout the world and
especially throughout the Global South where culture industries are aiming to increase their economic strength at home and their exposure – and capacity to
do business – abroad.
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With Porto Musical, WOMEX introduced its new Offspring concept, working with local partners to tailor an event to the precise needs of a given audience and market.
As the world’s foremost network of world music industry professionals, WOMEX receives numerous invitations each year to enhance, even create events for associations, arts counsels and governmental and nongovernmental initiatives. North and South America, Asia, Africa, Australia – in all parts of the world local organisations are exploring ways to bring the WOMEX philosophy to their own marketplaces. This recognises WOMEX’s unique ability to help educate, forge partnerships, enhance networks – collaborate – and in so doing, help to create innovative approaches to this challenging phase of the music industry.
Increasingly that focus goes beyond WOMEX’s original world music network. Case in point: Porto Musical is not a world music conference. Rock, alternative, independent, techno, hip-hop – these are the areas of operation of the Brazilian and international professionals in attendance, differing significantly from the usual WOMEX remit. It is one more indication of WOMEX’s successful embrace of independent operators in a wide variety of music-related fields and disciplines.
The WOMEX Offspring project seeks to develop an independent music industry model that can travel, one that can be put to use throughout the world and
especially throughout the Global South where culture industries are aiming to increase their economic strength at home and their exposure – and capacity to
do business – abroad.
back