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Music Under Pressure

First Edition


September 2010 | 186 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Don't Stop the Music!

Read about the songs they tried to ban, the musicians stopped for playing live, and the singers who are put on trial in the bumper Smashed Hits issue of Index.

What a Carve Up!

Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Clash manager Peter Jenner on hidden censorship in the music biz.

Yalla!

Cairo, Beirut, Amman: Musician Khyam Allami travel the middle east

Finding Bird

Jazz star Gilad Atzmon on Charlie Parker

Kurdish Blues

Kaya Genc on the singers they try to silence

My Life is Under Threat

Lapiro de Mbanga speaks to Index from his Prison Cell

Plus!

Chaza Charafeddine's Unmissable Divine Comedy Exhibition

Index on Censorship is an award-winning magazine, devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. International in outlook, outspoken in comment, Index on Censorship reports on free expression violations around the world, publishes banned writing and shines a light on vital free expression issues through original, challenging and intelligent commentary and analysis, publishing some of the world's finest writers.

Forthcoming December 2010: Issue 39/4,

Writers in Prison

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Jo Glanville
Editorial
Daniel Barenboim
Bring Music, Bring Life
An Exclusive Interview by Clemency Burton-Hill

 
Colin Greenwood
Set Yourself Free
Technology Brings Radiohead Closer to Their Fans

 
Will Self
Words and Music
God Save The Queen

 
Peter Jenner
The Deal
Musicians Have to Play the Game to Succeed

 
Marie Korpe and Ole Reitov
Banned: A Guide to Music Censorship
Malu Halasa
Fight the Power
Hip Hop Is the Sound of Modern Protest

 
Negar Shaghaghi
Sounds of Silence
Young Iranians Defy Convention to Make Music

 
Simon Broughton
Notes from Underground
The Challenges Facing a Female Singer in Tehran

 
Gilad Atzmon
Primacy of the Ear
The Education of a Jazz Musician

 
Malu Halasa
Words and Music
Chuy y Mauricio

 

Khyam Allami
Dispatches from a New Generation
The Independent Music Scene in the Middle East

 
 
PART ONE: DIVINE COMEDY
Chaza Charafeddine
Body and Soul
Preview of the New Exhibition

 
Femi Kuti
Words and Music
Beng Beng Beng

 
Louise Gray
Killer Songs
Is There Some Music That Deserves Banning?

 
Lapiro De Mbanga
Voice to the Voiceless
The Cameroonian Musician Speaks to Index from Prison

 
Kaya Genc
Coffee-House Blues
Kurdish Musicians Are Battling against Prejudice

 
Htein Lin
Rocking Rangoon
Music and Resistance in Burma

 
Woeser
Tradition of Protest
A Singer Unafraid of Taboos in Tibet

 
Rachel Aspden
Trance Music
A Vibrant Culture Is Being Challenged by Orthodox Islam

 
Jan Fairley
Control Shift
Cuban Musicians Are Pushing the Boundaries

 
 
Index
 
A Round-up of Music Censorship Stories

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