Smashed Hits 2.0: Music Under Pressure (Index on Censorship, 39-3) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857025317 ISBN 13: 9780857025319

Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd, 2010

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This issue of Index on Censorship magazine is available for purchase as an individual volume.

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 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.

Featuring:
*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

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.

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.

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Jo Glanville is Director of English PEN and joined the organization in September 2012 from Index on Censorship, where she served as an award-winning Editor since 2006.

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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 For subscription options visit: http://ioc.sagepub.com www.indexoncensorship.org: the place to turn for free up-to-the-minute free expression news and comment Winner 2008 Amnesty International Consumer Magazine of the Year

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0857025317
• ISBN 13: 9780857025319
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182
• Herausgeber: Glanville Jo
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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