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IDEOLOGY North Korea: Three years in prison for simply singing a wrong song Because she had sung a South Korean folk song and taught it to four others in 1992, North Korean Ji Hae Nam (Hae-Nam Ji) was imprisoned for three years and tortured 09 June 2008 Germany: New archive of music which the Nazis silenced Center for Ostracized Music aims to recover and revive the forbidden musical voices from the Nazi regime in Germany 60 years ago. Currently it holds 400 works of 50 ostracized composers. 29 February 2008 Germany/Russia: Was Hitler listening to 'forbidden' music? A record collection possibly belonging to Adolf Hitler has been found. It includes works by prominent Russian composers and Jewish musicians 09 August 2007 Argentina and Uruguay: Miguel Angel Estrella Article on the Argentinean classical pianist Miguel Angel Estrella who was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in Uruguay in December 1977. 19 June 2007 North Korea: Jason Carter - 'The Colour Of Silence' Excerpts from British guitarist Jason Carter's diary, 'The Colour Of Silence In The Axis Of Evil' - about his first performance in North Korea 24 April 2007 North Korea: Exiled because of passion for jazz Classical pianist Kim Cheol-woong (Cheol Woong Kim) had to flee North Korea to realise his dream of becoming a jazz musician 06 April 2006 South Korea: Protest music returns to be remembered Until the late 1980s, music that criticized the government was prohibited. Undeterred, students and laborers working outside the universities wrote songs and spread them remarkably from city to city by word of mouth. A new album traces the protest music of South Korea 10 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 Korea: 'The people united' Music for North Korea’s ‘Great Leader’ and ‘Dear Leader’. Article. 24 February 2003