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A report spearheaded by Shapiro s new nonprofit, the Center for Music Ecosystems, details how music-based policies can contribute to the U.N. s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Shain Shapiro has been working with city governments, festivals and other entities to develop localized music markets via his U.K.-based strategic consultancy, Sound Diplomacy, since 2013. In recent years, however, he felt he needed to address a more fundamental problem. I felt like no matter how good [the] work we were doing [was], we weren t tackling the systemic reason why music wasn t taken as seriously than any other sector, Shapiro tells