The third Freemuse “World Conference on Music and Censorship” takes place in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 November.
Musicians and music presenters affected by music censorship around the globe testify at the conference while speakers and participants discuss music censorship and freedom of musical expression in Cuba, the Middle East, West Africa, Indonesia, Belarus, China, Zimbabwe and several other countries.
Recent research on music censorship is presented by leading researchers and media people. The conference is hosted by Bilgi Üniversitesi in Istanbul – a meeting place of cultures and civilisations.
The conference is attended by more than 200 people. Registration has closed.
The first World Conference on Music and Censorship took place in November 1998. The conference created an international forum for the study and discussion of the censorship of music for the first time ever.
As a result of the conference Freemuse – the World Forum on Music and Censorship – was founded in 1999 and established its secretariat in Copenhagen in 2000. The second World conference on Music and Censorship took place in 2002.
Freemuse receives core funding from SIDA in Sweden and Danida.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Latest update on 16 November 2006
Saturday 25 November
10:00 – 10:30
OPENING CEREMONY —
MUSICAL WELCOME
WELCOME SPEECHES
Turgut Tarhanli, Prof. Dr., Dean Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Marie Korpe, Executive Director, Freemuse, Sweden/Denmark
10:30 – 11:40
SESSION 1
AFGHANISTAN: “You can not stop the birds singing”
SPEAKERS
John Baily, Professor, Goldsmiths College, UK
Shakeb Isaar, Exiled VJ from Afghanistan
Mirwaiss Sidiqi, Country Director, Aga Khan Music Initiative for Central Asia, Afghanistan
MODERATOR
Simon Broughton, Editor, Songlines, UK
COFFEE BREAK
12:00 – 12:40
SESSION 2
INDONESIA: “Singing with the Mullahs”
SPEAKER
Andrew Fuller, PhD student, University of Tasmania, Australia
LUNCH
14:00 – 14:45
SESSION 3
LAUNCH OF NEW FREEMUSE REPORT: “Belarus – Hidden Truths”
INTRODUCTION: Marie Korpe, Executive director, Freemuse, Sweden/Denmark
SPEAKERS
Maya Medich, Researcher, UK
Lemez Lovas, Researcher, UK
14:45 – 15:30
SESSION 4
CUBA: “Cuban Alternative Sounds… and Silences”
SPEAKERS
Mario Masvidal, Professor, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana,Cuba
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Professor, University of California, Freemuse Executive Committee, USA
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 16:30
SESSION 5
ZIMBABWE: “Playing with fire – but no fuel”
SPEAKER
Maxwell Sibanda, Journalist, Freemuse Executive Committee member, Zimbabwe
MODERATOR
Ole Reitov, Programme Officer, Freemuse, Denmark
16:30 – 17:45
SESSION 6
SOUTH AFRICA: “On tour with the enemy”
SPEAKERS
Roger Lucey, Musician, South Africa
Paul Erasmus, Company Director & Former Police Agent, South Africa
Michael Drewett, Senior Lecturer Dep. of Sociology Rhodes University, South Africa
MODERATOR
Ole Reitov, Programme Officer, Freemuse, Denmark
SUNDAY 26 November
10:00 – 11:45
SESSION 7
TURKEY: “Crossing the Bridge”
SPEAKERS
Ass. Prof. Feza Tansu?, Ethnomusicologist, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
Elif Kaya, MKM (Mesopotamia Cultural Center), Istanbul, Turkey
TESTIMONIES
Witnesses:
Vedat Türkali (Writer), Attila Özdemiro?lu (Composer), Melike Demira? (Singer), Selda Ba?can (Singer), Grup Yorum (Music band), Gülten Kaya (Producer), Radio Voice of Anatolia, Hasan Salt?k (Producer), Ferhat Tunç (Singer), Ali Kocatepe (Producer), Bülent Forta (Director of the Turkish Phonographic Industry Society), Ali R?za Binbo?a (Director of the Musical Work Owners Society of Turkey), Ayfer Düzta? (Singer), Istanbul University Law Department Music and Fine Arts Club
MODERATOR
?anar Yurdatapan, Association for Freedom of Expression, Turkey
COFFEE BREAK
12:10 – 13:00
SESSION 8
CHINA: “Singing under the Red Flag”
SPEAKERS
Jeroen de Kloet, Assistant Professor, Netherlands
Kaiser Abdurusul, East Turkistan / China / Sweden
IN MEMORIAM
Kurash Sultan, Exiled Uighur musician from East Turkistan / China
LUNCH
14:00 – 14:40
SESSION 9
WEST AFRICA: “Africa wants to be free”
SPEAKERS
Fadal Dey, Singer, Ivory Coast
Fabrice Tarrit, Secretary General, Survie, France
MODERATOR
Daniel Brown, Journalist, Vice-chair of Freemuse, France
14:40 – 16:20
SESSION 10
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA: “All that is banned is desired”
SPEAKERS
Thomas Burkhalter, Ethnomusicologist, Switzerland
Jason Carter, Musician, Producer, UK/Finland
Ourrad Rabah, Rapper, Algeria
Nabyl Guennouni , Festival L’Boulevard, Morocco
MODERATORS
Layla Al-Zubaidi, Programme Manager, HBF Middle East Office, Lebanon
Ole Reitov, Programme Officer, Freemuse
COFFEE BREAK
16:45 – 17:55
SESSION 11
RESEARCH & EDUCATION: “Researching music censorship”
SPEAKERS
John Baily, Professor, Goldsmiths College, UK
Michael Drewett, Senior Lecturer, Rhodes University, South Africa
Annemette Kirkegaard, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
Maya Medich, Researcher, Bosnia & Herzegovina / UK
MODERATOR
Martin Cloonan, Senior Lecturer, Chairperson of Freemuse, UK
17:55 – 18:00
FINAL REMARKS
SPEAKER
?anar Yurdatapan, Association for Freedom of Expression, Turkey
FREEMUSE secretariat:
Freemuse, Nytorv 17, 3rd floor, 1450 Copenhagen K, Tel: 33 32 10 27, e-mail: [email protected], web: www.freemuse.org
