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List of Juilliard School people
Juilliard School people: notable alumni and faculty of the New York conservatory founded 1905, including musicians Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Philip Glass, Miles Davis, dancers Paul Taylor and Pina Bausch, and actors Robin Williams, Viola Davis, and Adam Driver.
Modern Drummer
Modern Drummer, also known as Modern Drummer Magazine, is an American monthly drumming magazine founded in 1977 by drummer Ron Spagnardi, known for interviews, gear reviews, and educational columns.
Moscow Conservatory (Московская консерватория)
Moscow Conservatory (Московская консерватория), formally Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, is a Russian higher music school founded by Nikolai Rubinstein in 1866, where Tchaikovsky taught, with QS performing-arts ranking and Bolshaya Nikitskaya address.
Music Canada
Music Canada (formerly Canadian Recording Industry Association, renamed 2011) is the Toronto-based trade association of Canada's major record labels, founded 1964, administering the Gold & Platinum certification program since 1975.
Music in Africa Foundation
The Music in Africa Foundation (MIAF) is a pan-African non-profit organization registered in South Africa in 2014, operating the musicinafrica.net platform and the annual ACCES music conference.
Music organizations
Music organizations are institutions that work above the level of individual deals, lobbying for musicians, collectively licensing their rights, and setting standards; collecting societies alone distributed €13.97 billion in royalties in 2024.
Music organizations in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Music organizations in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong are the collecting societies licensing music copyrights: MCSC and CAVCA on the mainland, MÜST, TMCA, and ACMA in Taiwan, and CASH and HKRIA in Hong Kong.
Music organizations in Japan
Music organizations in Japan are the industry bodies, copyright societies, and performer associations that manage rights and distribute royalties, centered on JASRAC, founded in 1939.
Music organizations in South Korea
Music organizations in South Korea center on KOMCA, the copyright society founded in 1964 that collected ₩445.3 billion in 2025, alongside RIAK, KMPA, KPIA, and KOSCAP.
Music Rights Australia
Music Rights Australia, formerly Music Industry Piracy Investigations, is an Australian advocacy body representing songwriters, publishers, and record labels on copyright policy, run jointly by ARIA and APRA AMCOS.
Nepal in the Eurovision Song Contest Asia
Nepal in the Eurovision Song Contest Asia: Nepal debuted in the inaugural Eurovision Asia 2026 in Bangkok via broadcaster Himalaya TV. Its national final Nepal Decides (7 October 2026) selected Pratik Himal Rai, who will perform "Ananta Maya" on 14 November.
New England Conservatory of Music
New England Conservatory of Music (NEC), founded in Boston in 1867 by Eben Tourjée, is the oldest independent music school in the United States, home to Jordan Hall, with about 750 college students and a 2026 co-equal President/CEO structure.
No Music for Genocide
No Music for Genocide (NMFG) is a cultural boycott launched September 18, 2025, asking artists and labels to geo-block their music from streaming platforms in Israel; it grew from 400 to over 1,000 participants and also called for a Eurovision 2026 boycott.
Parents Music Resource Center
The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), founded in 1985 by Tipper Gore, Susan Baker, Pam Howar, and Sally Nevius, was a Washington pressure group whose Senate hearing and RIAA agreement created the Parental Advisory music label.
Rock Against Racism
Rock Against Racism (RAR) was a British grassroots movement, 1976–1981, founded after Eric Clapton's racist 1976 Birmingham speech, uniting punk and reggae against the National Front through carnivals such as Victoria Park 1978.
Rules of the Eurovision Song Contest
Rules of the Eurovision Song Contest: EBU regulations approved by the Reference Group covering eligibility, the three-minute live-vocal format, jury and audience voting, conduct, and hosting, updated annually for each edition.
Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg Conservatory (Санкт-Петербургская консерватория имени Римского-Корсакова), also Petrograd and Leningrad Conservatory: Russia's oldest music conservatory, founded 1862 by Anton Rubinstein; Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Heifetz, Gergiev among alumni; 1,411 students in 2025.
Sociedad General de Autores y Editores
Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), formerly Sociedad de Autores Españoles, is Spain's main copyright collective management society for music, audiovisual, and performing-arts authors. Founded 16 June 1899; CISAC member since 1932, expelled 2019, readmitted 2021; CNMC fines 2019 and 2024; over 120,000 members and 80 million works.
Universal Zulu Nation
Universal Zulu Nation: international hip hop awareness organization founded November 12, 1973 in the Bronx by Afrika Bambaataa; motto peace, love, unity, having fun; knowledge as fifth element; fractured by 2016 abuse allegations.
Up with People
Up with People (UWP), begun as Sing-Out '65, was a touring youth performing-arts and educational organization founded by J. Blanton Belk in 1965 as an offshoot of Moral Re-Armament, incorporated in 1968, known for Super Bowl halftime shows and world-leader performances, suspended in 2000, and relaunched as WorldSmart and later VOICES programs.
WOMEX
WOMEX, short for Worldwide Music Expo, is an annual trade fair, conference, and showcase festival for the world music industry, held each October in a different European city since 1994.