Africa-Press – Angola. The president of the steering committee of the National Union of Artists and Composers, Society of Authors (UNAC-SA), defended, over the weekend, in Mbanza Kongo, Zaire province, the need for artists to improve legal mechanisms for disseminating music Your works.
Zeca Moreno made this statement during the inauguration of the new regional delegate of UNAC-SA, which will be responsible for the provinces of Zaire and Uíge.
To the regional delegate, Zeca Moreno asked to unite the local artistic class, in towards common objectives, as they are important for the collection and dissemination of ancestral culture. “The regional delegate assumes an enormous responsibility, because he must do everything to unite the province’s artistic class. I must remember that great works are carried out in an atmosphere of brotherhood, around the same objectives.”
As recommendation, recalled that one of the priorities is to invest in municipalities. And he said that the province of Zaire has a very ancient cultural tradition rich, as it is a region where icons of Angolan music were born and raised such as the late Teta Lando and Waldemar Bastos.
At the act of taking office, Bernardo Alves Maifuila highlighted that one of the important assumptions in the process of preserving culture and traditions, involves young people avoiding acculturation. “We must do everything to avoid that young people are influenced by cultures that are foreign to ours people.”
A acculturation is not negative at all, but if it is not filtered, it can compromise the future of the next generations. “We have an obligation to preserve the legacy of our ancestors so that cultural identity, as Angolans, in particular, and Africans, in general, is always preserved”, he stressed.
Per In turn, the director of the Provincial Office of Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports, Nzuzi Makiese Wete Kadi, pledged unconditional support to artists and arts makers in the region, aiming to facilitate the mission of preserving, disseminating and value local culture.
Collection of rights
A National Union of Artists and Composers, Society of Authors (UNAC-SA), alert in a press release to the importance of cultural agents and institutions that use authors’ works for commercial purposes comply with the regulations, in light of what establishes law no. 15/14, of May 30, “so that creators and performers of the arts can enjoy the benefits derived from the their intellectual performance and thus feel compensated for their work creative and artistic work they perform, giving them greater dignity”.
A UNAC-S. A, as established in article 16, paragraph J and N of the Statute of institution, as well as article 26, paragraph G of Presidential Decree no 111/11, of May 31st, brings to the attention of all artists managed by the institution and its counterparts, as well as authorities responsible for issuing of visas to carry out activities listed in the Presidential Decree referenced above, for strict compliance with the law.
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