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El Sistema
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| Formation | 1975 |
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| Founder | José Antonio Abreu |
| Type | non-profit |
| Purpose | Music education |
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| Website | FESNOJIV official site |
El Sistema (which translates to The System) is a publicly financed, voluntary sector, music-education program, founded in Venezuela in 1975 by Venezuelan educator, musician, and activist José Antonio Abreu.[1] It later adopted the motto "Music for Social Change." El Sistema-inspired programs provide what the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies describes as "free classical music education that promotes human opportunity and development for impoverished children."[2] El Sistema has inspired similar programmes in more than 60 other countries.[3] By 2015, according to official figures, El Sistema included more than 400 music centers and 700,000 young musicians. The original program in Venezuela involves four after-school hours of musical training and rehearsal each week, plus additional work on the weekends.[1]
The institution's closeness to the government has caused the perception that the institution and conductor Gustavo Dudamel serve as propaganda instruments of Maduro's government.[3] Several musicians of El Sistema participated in the antigovernment 2017 protests. According to an OAS report, an 18-year-old violist was shot and killed by the National Guard.[4]
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