Making Places Better
Shain Shapiro, PhD, The Sound of RecoveryExploring How Music Can Make The World A Better Place, by Shain Shapiro, PhD
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Introducing The Sound of Recovery
Hi all. This is a guest post from , a new Substack started by my friend Carlo Ruiz. He works at the UN Development Program's crisis bureau, and we have been working together for a few years on incorporating music into crisis and recovery po...
Could an Upload Fee Help Fix Music Streaming
Hello. This is a reprint from a piece I published in Forbes today. I wanted to make sure it reached all subscribers, and was influenced by the work I did with , which you can view here. Looking forward to your feedback.
For many peo...
Making Places Better Is Changing: My Plan For 2026
Welcome to Making Places Better, 2026 edition. There are going to be some changes - including a new name, new brand, and (slightly) new focus for 2026. The first few posts of the year (including this one) outline where I am heading wi...
This Has Been The Place: Reflections on My Two Year Tour Learning How Music Is Making Cities Better
It has been a wild ride, this book. This week marks the final stop of the tour for This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better. Fittingly, I ended it in an unlikely spot: Como, Italy, where a group of musicians, academics, a...
The Music We Should Save Is the Music AI Needs the Most
I’m honored to share this piece, co-written with my longtime friend and music industry veteran. Benji was on the first advisory board of my company, Sound Diplomacy, and has become an influence and a dear friend. His Substack, , is mandator...
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Author - This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better / Founder & Chair @ Sound Diplomacy & Founder and ED @ Center for Music Ecosystems
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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