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FREEMUSE – THE WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC AND CENSORSHIP is an independent international organisation which advocates freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide.
FREEMUSE is a membership organisation with its secretariat based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Freemuse receives core funding from SIDA, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
FREEMUSE was born of the 1st World Conference on Music and Censorship held in Copenhagen in November 1998.
The conference joined together professionals from diverse fields and countries – musicians, journalists, researchers, record industry professionals and human rights activists – to examine, discuss and document a wide variety of abuses from the apparently benign to the overtly extreme.
The alarmingly widespread nature of censorship in music prompted the conference attendees to initiate the creation of a new organisation, Freemuse. Its guidelines are the principles outlined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights as they apply specifically to musicians and composers. The Freemuse secretariat was established in August 2000.
FREEMUSE IN ACTION
Our objectives are to:
• Document violations and discuss their effects on music life
• Inform media, human rights organisations and the public
• Support musicians in need and observe at their trials
• Develop a global network in support of threatened musicians and composers
To reach these objectives Freemuse initiates a variety of activities: International campaigns for musicians in need, informative activities, such as press conferences and lectures, as well as publishing reports, articles and regular newsletters. Freemuse also participates in several conferences, seminars and festivals. One of the main Freemuse activities are the recurring world conferences. For a complete list of Freemuse activities, click here.
NEWS NETWORK
This website, www.freemuse.org, is part of:
• the global Google News network, and
• Intute – an online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists from a consortium of universities and partners in the United Kingdom.
Its news stories are also distributed by the e-newsletter
• IMC Music World News – published by International Music Council from Maison de l'UNESCO in Paris.
JOIN US!
You can join FREEMUSE as a member and support our activities. We may not be able to stop music censorship, but we can, together, make it harder for the forces of repression to prevail.
FREEMUSE SECRETARIAT
Physical address and post address:
Freemuse
Nytorv 17, 3rd floor
DK-1450 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Staff:
Read more
Contact:
Tel: (+45) 33 32 10 27 |
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What is music censorship?
See a video introduction about Freemuse |
Copyright © 2008 Freemuse.
The views in the articles and reports on freemuse.org do not necessarily represent the views of Freemuse.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify the text above under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
Freemuse generally grants permission for its material to be reproduced or republished provided Freemuse is credited as the source, preferably with a link to the specific source page. |
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| Secretariat |
| About the staff and the Freemuse office in Copenhagen |
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| Freemuse Award 2009 |
| Singer, songwriter, activist, environmentalist, and peace advocate Pete Seeger receives the Freemuse Award 2009 |
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| Freemuse Award 2008 |
| A Freemuse Award will be presented for the first time in 2008. The first person to recieve the award will be announced on the Music Freedom Day, 3 March 2008 |
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| Introduction video |
Members of Freemuse's executive committee explain about the organisation, its aim and results
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| The purpose and constitution of Freemuse |
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| Freemuse campaign: Visa issues kill music |
| In collaboration with international artists organisations Freemuse launches an investigation of visa and work permit procedures in order to influence policy makers |
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