3rd Freemuse World Conference on
Music and Censorship
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Latest update
on 16 November 2006
SATURDAY 25 NOV
10:00 - 10:30 — OPENING CEREMONY —
MUSICAL
WELCOME
Mahsa Vahdat & Marjan Vahdat, Singers, Iran
WELCOME
SPEECHES
Turgut Tarhanli, Prof. Dr., Dean
Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Marie Korpe, Executive Director, Freemuse,
Sweden/Denmark
10:30 - 11:40 —— SESSION 1 ——
AFGHANISTAN:
“You can’t stop the birds singing”
SPEAKERS
John Baily, Professor, Goldsmiths
College, UK
Shakeb
Isaar, Exiled VJ
from Afghanistan
Mirwaiss Sidiqi, Country Director, Aga
Khan Music Initiative for Central Asia, Afghanistan
MODERATOR
Simon Broughton, Editor, Songlines, UK
—— COFFEE BREAK ——
12:00 - 12:40 —— SESSION 2 ——
INDONESIA: “Singing with the
Mullahs”
SPEAKER
Andrew
Fuller, PhD student, University of
Tasmania, Australia
—— LUNCH
——
14:00 - 14:45 —— SESSION 3 ——
LAUNCH OF
NEW FREEMUSE REPORT:
“Belarus
– Hidden Truths”
INTRODUCTION:
Marie Korpe, Executive director, Freemuse, Sweden/Denmark
SPEAKERS
Maya Medich, Researcher, UK
Lemez Lovas, Researcher, UK
14:45 - 15:30 —— SESSION 4 ——
CUBA: “Cuban
Alternative Sounds… and Silences”
SPEAKERS
Mario Masvidal, Professor, Instituto
Superior de Arte, Havana,Cuba
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant,
Professor, University of California, Freemuse Executive Committee, USA
—— COFFEE
BREAK ——
16:00 - 16:30 —— SESSION 5 ——
ZIMBABWE:
“Playing with fire – but no fuel”
SPEAKER
Maxwell
Sibanda,
Journalist, Freemuse Executive Committee member, Zimbabwe
MODERATOR
Ole
Reitov, Programme
Officer, Freemuse, Denmark
16:30 - 17:45 —— SESSION 6 ——
SOUTH AFRICA:
“On tour with the enemy”
SPEAKERS
Roger Lucey, Musician, South Africa
Paul Erasmus, Company Director & Former Police Agent, South Africa
Michael Drewett, Senior Lecturer Dep. of Sociology Rhodes University,
South Africa
MODERATOR
Ole Reitov, Programme Officer, Freemuse, Denmark
SUNDAY 26 NOV
10:00 - 11:45 —— SESSION 7 ——
TURKEY: “Crossing the
Bridge”
SPEAKERS
Ass. Prof. Feza Tansuğ, Ethnomusicologist, Yeditepe University,
Istanbul, Turkey
Elif Kaya, MKM (Mesopotamia
Cultural Center), Istanbul,
Turkey
TESTIMONIES
Witnesses:
Vedat Türkali (Writer), Attila Özdemiroğlu
(Composer), Melike Demirağ
(Singer), Selda Bağcan
(Singer), Grup Yorum (Music
band), Gülten Kaya
(Producer), Radio Voice of Anatolia, Hasan Saltık (Producer), Ferhat Tunç
(Singer), Ali Kocatepe
(Producer), Bülent Forta
(Director of the Turkish Phonographic Industry Society), Ali Rıza Binboğa
(Director of the Musical Work Owners’ Society of Turkey), Ayfer Düztaş (Singer), Istanbul
University Law Department Music and Fine Arts Club
MODERATOR
Şanar Yurdatapan, Association for Freedom of Expression, Turkey
—— COFFEE BREAK ——
12:10 - 13:00 —— SESSION 8 ——
CHINA:
“Singing under the Red Flag”
SPEAKERS
Jeroen de Kloet,
Assistant Professor, Netherlands
Kaiser Abdurusul, East Turkistan / China
/ Sweden
IN MEMORIAM
Kurash
Sultan, Exiled Uighur musician from East Turkistan / China
—— LUNCH
——
14:00 - 14:40 —— SESSION 9 ——
WEST
AFRICA:
“Africa wants to be free”
SPEAKERS
Fadal Dey, Singer, Ivory Coast
Fabrice Tarrit, Secretary
General, Survie,
France
MODERATOR
Daniel
Brown, Journalist,
Vice-chair of Freemuse,
France
14:40 - 16:20 —— SESSION 10 ——
MIDDLE
EAST & NORTH AFRICA:
“All that is banned is desired”
SPEAKERS
Thomas Burkhalter, Ethnomusicologist, Switzerland
Jason Carter, Musician, Producer, UK/Finland
Ourrad Rabah, Rapper, Algeria
Nabyl Guennouni , Festival L’Boulevard, Morocco
MODERATORS
Layla Al-Zubaidi, Programme Manager, HBF Middle East
Office, Lebanon
Ole Reitov, Programme Officer, Freemuse
——
COFFEE BREAK ——
16:45 - 17:55 —— SESSION 11 ——
RESEARCH
& EDUCATION:
“Researching music censorship”
SPEAKERS
John
Baily, Professor, Goldsmiths College, UK
Michael Drewett, Senior Lecturer, Rhodes University, South Africa
Annemette Kirkegaard,
Associate Professor, University
of Copenhagen
Maya Medich, Researcher, Bosnia
& Herzegovina / UK
MODERATOR
Martin Cloonan, Senior Lecturer, Chairperson of Freemuse, UK
17:55 - 18:00 —— FINAL REMARKS ——
SPEAKER
Şanar Yurdatapan, Association for Freedom of
Expression, Turkey
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