Myanmar Music Association

The Myanmar Music Association (MMA; Burmese: မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဂီတအစည်းအရုံး) is Myanmar's music industry association. The organisation was established in 1952 and consists of 5 divisions: historical traditional music, modern traditional music, contemporary music, production and technical work.[1]

Myanmar Music Association
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဂီတအစည်းအရုံး
Formation1952 (1952)
HeadquartersYangon, Myanmar
Location
Chairman
Tin U Lay
Websitewww.myanmarmusicassociation.org

MMA established a Burmese pop library in 2010, to create a standardised list of songs published in the country, and of help musicians and songwriters obtain their proper share of royalty payments from the use of their songs.[2] In 2013, it reopened a traditional Burmese music school, which had been closed since 2007.[3]

In July 2015, it announced that it would launch the Myanmar Music Academy Awards in 2016 to recognise outstanding Burmese musicians.[4]

References
  1. Nuam Bawi (4 June 2012). "Musician group to hold election". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  2. Nuam Bawi (20 June 2011). "MMA sets up library of songs". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  3. Nandar Aung (3 June 2013). "Six years of silence broken". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  4. Chit Su (8 July 2015). "New Myanmar Music Academy Awards to sing a different tune". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
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