● About
National Sounds Music Journal
The Music Industry’s Missing Human Rights Conversation.
National Sounds is the leading publication concerning human rights abuse in the music industry. No other publication deals with straight facts. That’s because in this publication, the only one who understands the way “things went down” is the artist.
National Sounds is a biannual publication. There are four publications in print so far. Volume 3: Issue 1 will be released on October 1, 2026.
● What’s important to us
Our Principles
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Freedom of speech in the music industry.
Business dealings have no say in artistic content. Social pressures never change artistic content.
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The right to mass assembly.
Every artist has the right to perform in front of audiences, small or large.
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Artists’ rights to own and control their music.
Article 27 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights gives each artist full control over the moral and material interests of his or her works.
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Human rights education.
Back in 1948, the United Nations published 30 human rights to prevent social injustice, genocide and war. All of these rights apply somehow to music industry business deals.