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Exploring How Music Can Make The World A Better Place, by Shain Shapiro, PhD

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  • Shain Shapiro, PhD

    Author - This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better / Founder & Chair @ Sound Diplomacy & Founder and ED @ Center for Music Ecosystems

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    Creative recovery is possible. Notes from the intersection between arts, crisis and recovery by Carlo Ruiz Giraldo. Views expressed here are my own.

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