El Instituto Cubano de la Música y el Comité Permanente
de la Feria convocan al concurso anual del disco Premio Cubadisco
2003.
Generales:
El Premio Cubadisco fue creado en 1998 Cubadisco Award was created
in 1998 aiming to the acknowledgement and encouragement of quality
in recording productions as well as contributing to promote and
spread them.
Cubadisco is not intended to substitute any other contest, or distinction
in the national system of the music or culture in general.
Cubadisco takes in consideration the quality and integrality of
specific recordings participating in the contest and not the work,
relevance and virtues of any artist whose works are included in
the recording.
Cubadisco award is granted considering specific categories allowing
the Award Committee to organize the recording material subject to
their consideration and which suffer permanent adjustment and modifications
according to the experience and the very development of the Cuban
recording industry.
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Cubadisco Award is granted during the celebration
of the Fair Cubadisco 2003.
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Cubadisco 2003 Award will consider there cordings from Cuban
and foreign labels officially based or distributing in the country
their recordings of any kind of Cuban music or artists published
or commercialized between January 1st, 2002 and December 31
st , 2002.
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Those productions published before and not registered in former
contests, and commercialized between January 1st, 2002 and December
31st, 2002.
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An affidavit certifying the dates of publishing and commercialization
of the proposed productions must be handed in by the labels
during the registration act.
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A written authorization of the publishing labels must be presented
by Cuban and foreign labels settled in Cuba and authorized to
produce and distribute records from other Cuban music companies
not represented in the country and proposed for the award.
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It will be the decision of the Award Committee, with the approval
of the main artist and the producer, to determine the final
category of nomination for each production, independently from
those originally proposed by the labels.
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It will be the decision of the Award Committee the addition
of any category they regard as necessary.
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After passing the first round, the recordings will be listened
by the Award Committee in charge of deciding the nominations.
The discussion, the propositions and the voting will be "a
viva voce".
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The members of the Award Committee will form juries by categories,
discuss "a viva voce" the criteria supporting the
propositions. The voting will be secret and its result admits
not appeal.
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The members of the juries by categories can not be directly
related to the productions in contest.
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Record labels can propose as many productions as they wish
provided their propositions will be registered before January
1 st, 2003.
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Five copies of each proposed production will accompany the
registration.
13. The Video category will admit music Video Clips corresponding
to the CDs subject to the 2003 contest.
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Special Awards can be grant by the Committee to productions
with singular or exceptional values not considered by any of
the categories, participating in the contest.
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The Award Committee can be granted Cubadisco "Honor Award"
to Cuban or foreign personalities and cultural institutions
having made exceptional contributions to the creation or production
of recordings and significant cultural and social musical realizations.
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The Award Committee will choose the Grand Award Cubadisco
from among the productions awarded by the juries of the different
categories. Only as an exception can the jury consider the selection
of a second Grand Award. Voting will be written, personal and
secret.
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Categories:
. Present-time music for dancing
. Song
. Popular traditional and folkloric music
. Rock and pop-rock
. Fusion
. Hip Hop-Rap
. Jazz
. Instrumental popular music
. Music for children
. Electroacoustic music
. Vocal groups
. Choral music
. Symphonic music, symphony, chamber groups
. Opera and zarzuela
. Concert soloist (Instrumental and vocal)
. Testimonial
. Anthology
. Compilation
. Soundtrack for cinema and video, theater, radio and TV
. Opera prima
. Archive music
. Recording
. Artistic musical production
. Graphic design
. Notes to record
. Multimedia
. Music video Clip
. Special Awards
. Honor Award
. Grand Award Cubadisco |
