FREEMUSE @ WOMEX

Nigeria and South Africa are in focus when FREEMUSE - The World Forum on Music and Censorship travels to WOMEX

'STOPPING THE MUSIC' - film screening
A South African protest singer and the police spy assigned to stop his career meet face to face…
This unique meeting is documented in 'Stopping the Music', which will be screened at Womex, Friday 25th October (15:00 - 16:00 at Hall 7 Conference room).
'Stopping the Music' is the story of a South African protest singer and the security branch policeman assigned to put an end to his career. The singer Roger Lucey was considered a menace to society by the increasingly brutal apartheid regime of the 80s and thus had to be destroyed. Paul Erasmus gladly took on the job of stopping the 'communist' Lucey.
Full 'Stopping the Music' press release: http://www.freemuse.org/07activi/movie13082002.htm#stop

The screening will be followed by a session on Saturday 26th (Hall 23 Studio 2; 12:00 - 12:45), where Ole Reitov (journalist and Freemuse Executive Committee member) will show excerpts from the film and discuss the effects of censorship.

WHICH WAY NIGERIA? Presentation of forthcoming Freemuse report on the censorship of music in Nigeria: Saturday 26th Oct, Hall 23 Studio 2, 11:00-11:45.
The report is the fourth in a series of reports from Freemuse. French journalist Jean-Christophe Servant travelled to Nigeria to investigate the censorship of music in Nigeria. In this session Jean-Christophe Servant will present his findings in an interview with Freemuse Executive Director, Marie Korpe.
The report will be published by Freemuse in January 2003.
Report abstract: http://www.freemuse.org/03libra/countries/nigeria/texts/abstract01.html

See you @ Womex!

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