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Soundczech project
Description of the policy/measure
The 鈥渟oundczech鈥 pro-export office聽focuses on support for 鈥渃ontemporary competitive music鈥 created in the czech republic in a wide range of genres (world music, rock-pop, electronic music, hip-hop, jazz, alternative music, other genres and fusions; in specific cases it can also support contemporary classical music projects).
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Cultural Domain(s)
Results achieved
April 2017 marked a turning point in the history of the czech music industry. based on demands from representatives of the music sector and an initiative of the arts and theatre institute, an export agency, soundczech/czech music office was founded with the aim of supporting the czech music scene in all varieties of music genresbehind the foundation of the office are players from the field of the czech music sector. in 2015, a meeting of the initiators took place, where they voiced the importance of creating a bureau to represent the czech music scene abroad, as well as supporting export activities. the role of soundczech/czech music office will primarily be to support the czech music scene on a local and global scale. the european union is also planning to officially classify the music sector as one of the european creative industries and, from 2020 there are plans to start direct support aimed at boosting the growth of the music industry. to attain the growth of the music sector on the european scale, the music industry in every country needs to have local infrastructure and representatives on a local and international level. connecting czech music professionals with international music scenes; strengthening the regional music industry with the cee region through exchange and joint projects, thereby contributing to increased competitiveness of this region, of which the czech republic is a part, on the global music market. apart from the cee region, the sound czech/czech music office will also focus on relevant foreign markets markets on the basis of its long-term strategy or current foreign cultural policies..in 2017, czech musicians were sent, for example, to every year esns (eurosonic noorderslag), waves vienna or showcase womex. http://www.soundczech.cz/en 聽
Financial resources allocated to the policy
This project is supported from the budget of the ministry of culture, specifically from the chapter of a state-funded organisation, 42% of which is funded from the overall budget of the mc cr of a state-funded organisation, 42% of which is funded from the overall budget of the mc cr