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Shain Shapiro in-conversation with Tanya Ali

Thu, 12 Sept

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Better Read Than Dead

Join us with Shain Shapiro for his inaugural Australian, New Zealand, Singaporean, and Japan tour to support his acclaimed book, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better. Shain will be in-conversation with Tanya Ali.

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Shain Shapiro in-conversation with Tanya Ali
Shain Shapiro in-conversation with Tanya Ali

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12 Sept 2024, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia

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Lauded by Ben Lovett (CEO of tvg Hospitality and musician in Mumford and Sons) as “the most informed and capable voice on the subject of how music and culture is a critical and powerful component of any thriving community” and “a seminal thinker” by Al Bell (Original Owner, Chairman, Stax Records and Former President, Motown Records Group), Shain Shapiro is taking his acclaimed book, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better to Australasia for the first time.

Praised as “well-written and insightful and a persuasive manifesto for future sound city planning” by Martyn Ware (Heaven 17, The Human League) and “an essential read for anyone interested in the power of music to shape our cities and our lives” by Harvey Mason (CEO, the Recording Academy), This Must Be The Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed.

Since its publication in September 2023, This Must Be The Place has sold out of its first printing (over 4000 copies thus far) and will be published in Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian and Portuguese in 2024 and 2025, as well as an audiobook.

Shain has done 49 tour dates in 12 countries in support of the critically acclaimed book and this marks his first Australasian tour. These dates will feature a presentation on the book and a discussion with local leaders, with Shain applying the book's themes to the place he’s visiting.

Shain Shapiro, PhD is one of the world's leading music and cultural policy thinkers. He is the founder and chairman of economics consultancy Sound Diplomacy, founder and director of the global nonprofit Center for Music Ecosystems.

Tanya Ali is a Pakistani-Australian broadcaster, writer and musician making art on Gadigal-Wangal land. She is also the Music Editor of Peril Magazine.

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