Smashed Hits 2.0

03 Sep 10 | Press Releases

Press release – 2 September 2010

Daniel Barenboim, Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, Femi Kuti, Will Self and Gilad Atzmon discuss music and censorship in the new issue of Index on Censorship ‘Smashed Hits 2.0’ – publication date 8 September. In association with Freemuse.

Launch: 21 September 630pm at the Free Word Centre 60 Farringdon Road London EC1R 3GA (gmap).
RSVP [email protected] Tel: 020 7324 2522

For musicians, broadcasters, singers and their fans around the world, censorship is a fact of life – from legal threats against filesharers to restrictions on performing live. But some musicians and music lovers face more extreme conditions than others. In Iran, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei recently declared that music was incompatible with the values of the Islamic Republic; in Tibet, musicians are imprisoned for singing resistance songs and in Turkey, Kurdish singers can face prosecution for making political statements. In its latest issue, Index publishes interviews and articles by leading music writers and musicians on the challenges to free expression – whether digital, legal or commercial.

***Daniel Barenboim on his stand against censorship

***Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood on how the net sets musicians free

***Will Self on banning the Sex Pistols

***Femi Kuti on confronting censors in Nigeria

***Gilad Atzmon on how jazz gave him a political education

PLUS Negar Shaghaghi (star of ‘No one knows about Persian Cats’) on defying convention in Iran; Cameroonian singer Lapiro de Mbanga gives exclusive interview from prison; Louise Gray on hate music; Kaya Genç on Kurdish blues; Peter Jenner, manager of The Clash and Pink Floyd, on censorship in the music business; Gilad Atzmon on an education in jazz; Khyam Allami, Malu Halasa, Simon Broughton and many more

Listen to Index contributors’ playlists on iTunes and Spotify www.indexoncensorship.org/music

‘Smashed Hits 2.0’ available from selected bookshops and on Amazon
or subscribe on www.indexoncensorship.org/subscribe

Launched in 1972, Index on Censorship is the only magazine devoted to protecting and promoting free expression, and is published by SAGE – a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. www.sagepublications.com

For further information contact enquiries[at]indexoncensorship[.]org
Tel: 020 7324 2522

PAST EVENT: Academic freedom in the 21st century

14 Apr 10 | Academic Freedom, Events

 

In collaboration with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics will be running a series of panel discussions at UK universities throughout the 2009/2010 academic year. These will focus on the important role of academics and academic freedom in society and the specific problems faced by academics in trying to carry out their work under repressive conditions.

15th April, 5-6.30pm – Academic Freedom in the 21st Century

Lawyer Mark Stephens, Chair of UEL Governors and trustee of Index of Censorship will chair a panel discussion by three academic refugees from Cameroon, Iraq and Rwanda covering the personal threats and difficulties they faced as academics.

The event will be held at the University of East London, East Building, G08

To RSVP to any CARA/BIS Academic Freedom Discussion please email [email protected]

Current Edition

01 Jan 10

CLICK HERE FOR STOCKISTS AND SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Don't Stop The Music! Read about the songs they tried to ban, the musicians stopped from playing live, and the singers who are put on trial, in the bumper SMASHED HITS issue of Index DANIEL BARENBOIM Bring music, bring...

Journaliste en Danger (JED)

20 May 09 | Resources

Journaliste en Danger is an organisation dedicated to the defence and promotion of press freedom, initially in the DRC and since May 2003 also in Burundi, Cameroon, Coorganisation Brazzaville, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Rwanda and Thad.