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      • druckmanh@socan.ca

      Read more »

      About Us

      Words + Music is the online magazine of SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Just as SOCAN was formed in 1990 by the merger of its predecessor Canadian performing rights organizations PROCAN and CAPAC, their separate magazines merged in 1994 to form Words + Music. Our mission is to provide interesting, high-quality content about the increasingly exciting and

      Read more »

      SOCAN Song of the Week

      Dylan Sinclair - SOCAN Song of the Week

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      Video: Red Carpet Interviews from 2023 SOCAN Gala – Part 1

      Video: Red Carpet Interviews from 2023 SOCAN Gala – Part 1

      Plume, Banx & Ranx, Ginette Reno, Nathalie Bonin, Roxane Bruneau, Mathieu Brisset

      Speaking Out: SOCAN advocates politically for music creators

      Currently lobbying government on several key issues

      President’s Message: The accelerating pace of change

      Adapting to constant, disruptive technological shifts

      All From the Top »

      Building a career in France: challenges, sacrifices, dreams, reality

      Building a career in France: challenges, sacrifices, dreams, reality

      The export strategies of Klô Pelgag, Fredz, Aliocha, Patrick Watson and Billy du Page

      Attention SOCAN members! New online resources

      For education, connection, networking, development

      Kizaba: Carte Blanche for Black History Month

      ‘It is still hard to admit that Black people experience inequalities in their artistic practices”

      All Sound Advice »

      Dan Mangan records new album Natural Light in one week at a cottage

      Dan Mangan records new album Natural Light in one week at a cottage

      Cooking musical “leftovers” into a potent new egg scramble

      Antoine Corriveau: Don’t Cage the Night

      “I don’t want to make the same thing over and over”

      SOCAN Academy: Murda Beatz Shares Top Producer Tips

      Level Up Your Beatz

      All Features »

      SOCAN honours Mother Mother’s Ryan Guldemond with No. 1 Song

      SOCAN honours Mother Mother’s Ryan Guldemond with No. 1 Song

      For writing “EXPLODE!”

      53 SOCAN #ComposersWhoScore earn Canadian Screen Awards 2025 nominations

      Team of Cornies, Pickett, Chapple earns three; Orin Isaacs, Andrew Macpherson, Rob Carli, Peter Chapman, earn two each

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      “These findings are a call to action,” says study organizer Catherine Harrison

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Story by Howard Druckman | February 28, 2018



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