Censorship of music

Censorship of music is not always a straightforward case of prohibition, being imposed by states, religions or media.
Fear can censor, racism can censor.

These matters are in focus in the forthcoming reports from FREEMUSE, published on 25. October:

Playing with Fire: Fear and Self-Censorship in Zimbabwean Music by Banning Eyre - one of the United States' foremost journalists on African music, on the situation in Mugabe's increasingly repressive Zimbabwe.

'A Little Bit Special' - Censorship and the Gypsy Musicians of Romania by Garth Cartwright (NZ/UK) - author of The Tower Guide To World Music and a freelance journalist, on the plight of the Gypsies in Romania.

The report abstracts are online now at www.freemuse.org.

Both reports will be launched at the annual WOMEX - The Worldwide Music Expo - conference in Rotterdam, 25-28 October 2001, where Banning Eyre and Garth Cartwright will present their reports.

Gerald Seligman, Freemuse founder and board member, and Freemuse director Marie Korpe will speak at the opening session of the WOMEX conference (Music and Human Rights: The Fight Against Censorship), which also features John Baily, whose report on censorship in Afghanistan was published by Freemuse back in April.

>From 1. November the reports will be available in PDF-format at www.freemuse.org .
Hard copies can be purchased at www.freemuse.org .

Journalists, scholars... NOTE: If you wish to receive a review copy of
the report, please contact Jim at Freemuse; mailto:jqh@humanrights.dk
/ tel. +45 32 69 89 20.

For more info on WOMEX, go to: www.womex.com

kind regards,

FREEMUSE - The World Forum on Music and Censorship
Wilders Plads 8 H
1403 Copenhagen K. Denmark
tel +45 32 69 89 20
fax +45 32 69 89 01
http://www.freemuse.org

• article submitted by: Johannes Skjelbo, Freemuse