The Lahore Music Meet (LMM) is a two-day event dedicated to the celebration and critique of music in Pakistan. LMM aims to bring together enthusiasts, artisans, artists, patrons, industry representatives and academics to initiate dialogue on the developments in music and their shortcomings.

 

The music industry in Pakistan may be characterized as fragmented, at best. The lack of appropriate structures and resources, along with cultural constraints in mainstream discourse, have given rise to a number of inter-related obstacles for music, the most significant of which are the following. First, they inhibit the cultivation of fresh and diverse talent, for success is often dictated by social situation/capital more so than the possession of the innate endowment or aptitude. Second, they have contributed to the shrinking of legitimate social spaces for expression and performance, especially in light of recent socio-political developments. Third, the marginalization of music and its appropriations by those at the margins have given birth to a rich variety of creative cultural responses which remain lost in obscurity.