 |
|
|
Israel:
Police confiscates CDs with “inflammatory song”
The song ‘Hawk of Lebanon’ by the Palestinian “wedding circuit” boy band Northern Band has been banned by Israeli authorities. Tapes and CDs containing the song are being confiscated at the borders and in music shops
At the height of the Israel-Hezbollah war, the five singers of Northern Band made an instant hit among Palestineans when they wrote new lyrics for an old tune and praised the Hezbollah guerrilla chief Hassan Nasrallah.
The response from has been to try and confiscate as much copies of the song as possible. Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said that “the song is considered inflammatory”. He said police officers in and around Jerusalem have searched music stores and are on the lookout for contraband. Israeli soldiers have confiscated some ‘Hawk of Lebanon’ tapes and CDs at checkpoints.
In a CNN report, the lead singer and manager Alaa Abu al-Haija said that the audience at a wedding celebration in Ramallah requested the song six times.
|
|
|
 |
| Related reading: |
| Kamilya Jubran |
| Video interview with the Palestinian artist Kamilya Jubran who lives in Israel. She talks about music making and distribution in the shadow of regional conflict |
| 30 October 2006 |
|
| Israel: American piano tuner arrested |
| Paul Larudee, an American who came to tune pianos in Ramallah and Jenin, refused to board a plane against his will and is now waiting for a court decision regarding him |
| 15 June 2006 |
|
| Middle East: Hip-Hop on the frontline |
| The rap form allows a powerful voice for political invective, and is being used on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. But for Arab countries and the Middle East, the influence and performance of hip-hop lights a few fuses |
| 02 November 2004 |
|
| Shoot the Singer! Book |
| "Shoot the Singer! Music Censorship Today". The first worldwide presentation of contemporary cases of music censorship, with cases from i.a. Burma, Mexico, Middle East, France, Algeria, Zimbabwe, USA, South Africa, Turkey. Edited by Freemuse director Marie Korpe, published by Zed Books, May 2004. |
| 25 May 2004 |
|
| Cultural Boycott - of any use? Freemuse Conference |
| The recent initiative to boycott Israel is controversial, so is the Arab initiative to boycott cultural events which include Israeli artists. Yet the cultural boycott on apartheid South Africa did have an effect. And what about Cuba? Listen to the panel discussion from WOMEX 2003. |
| 30 November 2003 |
|
|
|
|
