Language might not be that relevant for all the music created with English lyrics, but the moment we leave that big global soup, it starts becoming more important. As a Spanish and Catalan native speaker, I definitely put more attention to music created in these languages and posted on fair and social platforms, and my motivation / predisposition to know more about their artists and follow them / crowdfund their projects is also higher when I like their music.
The problem is… do we have good tags to find this music? One option would be to use the native name of the language, but I’m not sure who follows those tags – I don’t even do it for tiny Catalan language. It would be different if there would be (and maybe there are?) tags for #MúsicaEnEspañol, #MúsicaEnCatalà, and so on.
I’m curious about what music makers producing music in not-English think about this.
Or maybe something even more precise, to avoid being mixed with the commercial music in these languages? #FediMúsicaEnEspañol, #FediMúsicaEnCatalà, etc?
“Fediverse” might not be an accurate concept to capture social, fair, autonomous production and distribution, but “social music” might be something very different, and in the end these tags are to be used mostly in the Fediverse social networks…