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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
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Contents
Editorial - Jo Glanville
Bring Music, Bring Life - Daniel Barenboim
An Exclusive Interview by Clemency Burton-Hill
Set Yourself Free - Colin Greenwood
Technology Brings Radiohead Closer to Their Fans
Words and Music - Will Self
God Save The Queen
The Deal - Peter Jenner
Musicians Have to Play the Game to Succeed
Banned: A Guide to Music Censorship - Marie Korpe and Ole Reitov
Fight the Power - Malu Halasa
Hip Hop Is the Sound of Modern Protest
Sounds of Silence - Negar Shaghaghi
Young Iranians Defy Convention to Make Music
Notes from Underground - Simon Broughton
The Challenges Facing a Female Singer in Tehran
Primacy of the Ear - Gilad Atzmon
The Education of a Jazz Musician
Words and Music - Malu Halasa
Chuy y Mauricio
Dispatches from a New Generation - Khyam Allami
The Independent Music Scene in the Middle East
PART ONE: DIVINE COMEDY
Body and Soul - Chaza Charafeddine
Preview of the New Exhibition
Words and Music - Femi Kuti
Beng Beng Beng
Killer Songs - Louise Gray
Is There Some Music That Deserves Banning?
Voice to the Voiceless - Lapiro De Mbanga
The Cameroonian Musician Speaks to Index from Prison
Coffee-House Blues - Kaya Genc
Kurdish Musicians Are Battling against Prejudice
Rocking Rangoon - Htein Lin
Music and Resistance in Burma
Tradition of Protest - Woeser
A Singer Unafraid of Taboos in Tibet
Trance Music - Rachel Aspden
A Vibrant Culture Is Being Challenged by Orthodox Islam
Control Shift - Jan Fairley
Cuban Musicians Are Pushing the Boundaries
Index
A Round-up of Music Censorship Stories
