Text by Dawoud Kringle
Musicians in the USA have often been the victim of political candidates appropriating their music for the purpose of campaigning and propaganda. This is always done without the artist’s permission.
Text by Dawoud Kringle
Photos and video by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
One would think that freelance work is lucrative. On paper, in theory, this is true. The reality, however, is very different. The sad fact is that 1.3 million freelancers in New York city lost an average of $6,000 a year to nonpayment. The reason for this is simple. There is no legal protection for freelancers. If a freelance worker is hired for a job, often he / she is not paid. They may be underpaid, paid late, or never paid at all. If they sue the company, there is no legal framework clearly defining freelancers’ rights in the way a regular W2 employee’s rights are protected. Even if they do win the case, freelancers have no way to actually collect what they’re owed. To add insult to injury, freelancers who dare to challenge having their rightfully earned wages stolen are often blacklisted. The situation is, quite simply, intolerable.
ClarinetMike’s 101 Clarinet Tips: #30 Time Management (Posted on April 6, 2015)
Crunch Time! April is often a super busy month for many musicians with lots of challenges time-wise. Therefore, I offer the following updated version of a time management article I published in the NACWPI Journal several years ago (citation below).
BASIC TIME MANAGEMENT By Michael Dean
In his State of the City speech today, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to build 1,500 new affordable live/work units for artists over the next decade.
Photo by Robert Menzer
By Steve Weinstein (The Village Voice Blogs), Wed., Nov. 5 2014 at 3:00 AM
With Bushwick already having gone the way of the East Village and Williamsburg, musicians in New York remain “all but extinct,” at the top of the city’s critically endangered list.Read More >>
