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Innovating Music Podcast
Tech is changing music. Listen to innovators, change agents, entrepreneurs, creators, and researchers who all are making big leaps, nudging change, creating differently, or watching what is happening from a unique POV. Dr. Gigi Johnson from the UCLA Center for Music Innovation explores with our guests how tech is transforming how we create, collaborate, and create communities around music in a connected age — in our home towns and in communities across the globe.
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Rehan Choudhry joined our podcast to discuss the upcoming second year of Emerge LV — and to share his journey on how he re-melds social justice and music in this Facebook-embedded era. He walked us down his path through college, Homeland Security, Atlantic City, the Cosmopolitan, and Life is Beautiful. He then shared the challenges and importance of reconnecting social justice and heartfelt artists in this politically laden and fractured time.
Guest: Rehan Choudhry, Founder & CEO, A Beautiful Perspective; Founder, Emerge LV
After working for years in emergency management IT at the Department of Homeland Security, Rehan ran entertainment initiatives for an Atlantic City casino hungry to bring younger crowds to the city. After working with the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Rehan took the plunge into the festival world and became the founder and driving force behind Life is Beautiful. Rehan realized that the emotional tie, that sense of personal relevance, was missing at many events. This epiphany brought him to create Emerge LV, a thoughtfully curated annual event for emerging thoughts and voices in music and social impact spaces. This year’s festival revolves around four themes–Self, Protest, Fear, Sex–meant to drive conversations and discovery. For two days (May 31-June 1, 2019), festival goers will get a chance for a second year to focus on these themes at the Hard Rock Hotel.
- Emerge LV
- A Beautiful Perspective
- Twitter @rehanc
- Instagram @rehanc
- Taleb Kweli
- Laura Jane Grace
- Emma Gonzalez
- Brandon Flowers
- David Hogg
- Weldon Angelos
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