Music will not be silenced: New Freemuse report
With 14 video interviews and written overviews of music censorship in countries as diverse as Algeria, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Ivory Coast and Cuba, a new Freemuse report is the closest you get to a global overview of music censorship today. And it is not a pretty picture! writes the group in its latest newsletter Tuesday.
Based on the sessions at the 3rd Freemuse World Conference on Music & Censorship in Istanbul November 2006, the new report “Music will not be silenced” gives an insight to a world unknown by many.
For the first time in history Turkish musicians and composers aging from 20 to 85 testified in public about their trials, torture and censorship in Turkey. And for the first time we include a CD-R with video testimonies by artists, researchers and journalists from more than a dozen countries. The report also includes two songs composed and recorded specifically for Freemuse.
Read more: www.freemuse.org/sw21038.asp
Nobel Peace Centre: Exhibition on freedom of expression
Freemuse has been a consultant to the exhibition “Where is the limit?” about freedom of expression and its dilemmas. The exhibition is opening on 25 September 2007 at the Nobel Peace Center in the Norwegian capital Oslo. Freemuse was involved in preparing a part of the exhibition describing limitations of freedom of musical expression and censorship.
Read more: www.nobelpeacecenter.org/?aid=9077203
Conference activities
Programme officer Ole Reitov will lecture in Bergen, Norway on 13 September 2007 at the International symposium “Music and identity”. The symposium commemorating the 100th year of the death of composer Edward Grieg will highlight that Edward Grieg was a defender of freedom, democracy, justice and the rule of law in both his attitude and his actions. Ole Reitov will talk on the subject “Music censorship – the clash within civilisations”.
Read more: eng.grieg07.no/index.php
Freemuse Executive Director Marie Korpe will give a talk at the conference “Popular Songs in Media Society” at Basel University on 5-6 October 2007.
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Freemuse.org features news stories and background documents on music censorship every week.
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