| FREEMUSE: THE WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC AND CENSORSHIP | |
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An international organization to support cultural rights and free expression | |
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Visit our website: www.freemuse.org | |
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| There is a long history of popular music that has been banned? Even the most so-called liberal cultures have banned music, from Elvis Presley to Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Manson. During apartheid, several South African musicians were forced into exile, imprisoned and denied the right to perform. Several musicians have been killed in Algeria during the 1990's, and a great musician was stabbed to death in Sudan. The Cuban band, Los Van Van, is banned from touring the United States. In Afghanistan, there is a complete ban on secular music. In Iran, woman cannot perform in public. The list is long and grows longer every day. | |
| Everyone talks about human rights these days, but few talk about cultural rights---the right to produce and perform art without risking your life. Music censorship is an important issue that is too often ignored. Perhaps you have become so used to seeing the warning "parental advisory" that you have forgotten its most common form. Sadly, there are far more alarming examples of censorship that have left musicians and composers banned, imprisoned and even executed. Everyday thousands of musicians around the world are denied the right to perform the music they produce, but unfortunately the international community has neglected this fact for years. | |
| FREEMUSE is an international network of concerned musicians, researchers, and representatives of organizations, the music industry, the media and other institutions with a common goal to monitor and discuss the effects of global music censorship. Our goal is to raise world consciousness to this alarming and growing, trend. We focus on the repression of musicians who are denied their cultural rights, and support threatened musicians worldwide. | |
| Freemuse established a new website address in December 2000 to provide the latest information on music and censorship. We welcome you to visit our site to find information about music and censorship, speeches and debates from the First World Conference on Music and Censorship, documentation material, interviews with musicians and composers, relevant links and much more. | |
| Freemuse's activities are extensive. In Summer 2000, we established an office in Copenhagen, Denmark, and have since initiated reports on music censorship in Afghanistan, Romania, Zimbabwe, and Tunisia. Two additional reports were published in London in Spring 2001. In March 2001, Freemuse sponsored a seminar in South Africa, in collaboration with the South African Ministry of Culture, where the effect of the politics of music and censorship practiced under Apartheid was examined. We support the Roskilde Festival held in Denmark every summer, where you can hear musicians who have been censored. | |
| This and many other topics are described in speeches and debates from the world conference, now available in our book The First World Conference on Music and Censorship. Please contact Freemuse for information about new reports and projects on music and censorship. | |
ACCESS THESE WEBSITES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: | |
| You can support Freemuse: | http://www.freemuse.org/02help/feedback.htm |
| Find the latest news at: | http://www.freemuse.org/10news.html |
| News from the annual Roskilde Festival in Denmark: |
http://www.freemuse.org/07activi/rosk2001.htm |
| News on Wagner in Israel issue: | http://www.freemuse.org/03libra/countries/israel/israel01.html |
Or contact Freemuse's staff: | |
| Jim Q. Holm: | jqh@humanrights.dk |
| Marie Korpe: | mak@humanrights.dk |
| Johannes Skjelbo: | js@humanrights.dk |
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| website: | FREEMUSE Wilders Plads 8 H 1403 Copenhagen K., Denmark tel: +45 32 69 89 20 fax: +45 32 69 89 01 |
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