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FREEMUSE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Updated: 23 September 2008
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 Martin Cloonan (UK)
Chairperson of Freemuse. Professor of Popular Music Politics, Department of Music, University of Glasgow. Author of 'Banned! Censorship of Popular Music in Britain: 1967-1992' (Arena, 1996), co-editor of 'Policing Pop' (Temple University Press, 2003), co-editor of Popular Music Censorship in Africa (Ashgate, 2006) and author of Popular Music and the State in the UK (Ashgate, 2007). He is also author of numerous articles on music and politics. Member of the editorial board of Popular Music and of Popular Music and Society. He is a reviewer for several academic journals and manages the Glasgow band Zoey Van Goey. |
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Daniel Brown (USA/France)
Vice-Chair of Freemuse. Senior staff journalist in the English Service of Radio France International (RFI). He has been covering cross-cultural and hybrid music since 1995. The Paris-based journalist has been producing the weekly programme World Tracks for RFI for twelve years. Brown worked with film director Rex Bloomstein on the feature-length documentary An Independent Mind on censorship and freedom of expression in the world. He was also music advisor for the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool which opened its doors in August 2007. |
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Robin Gross (USA)
Founder and executive director of IP Justice - an international civil liberties organisation which advocates for a balanced intellectual property law and protects freedom of expression. An attorney, Robin Gross advises policy makers throughout the world on the impact of intellectual property rules before national legislatures, in international treaties and trade agreements. In 2006 the UN secretary general appointed Robin Gross as member of his advisory group to the UN Internet Governance Forum. In her private entertainment law practice at Imagine Law in San Francisco, she represents several musical artists. |
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Krister Malm (Sweden)
Established musicologist specialized in global music issues and author of amongst others 'Big Sounds from Small Peoples – the music industry in small countries' and 'Music, Media, Multiculture'. Former General Director of the Swedish National Collections of Music and former President of International Council for Traditional Music.
Founding member of Freemuse. |
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Tsigue Shiferaw (France/Ethiopia)
Freelance reporter with a Master’s in Radio Journalism, working for BBC French Service, Radio Vatican and TV5, covering many aspects of Ethiopia’s news and current affairs since 2004. She has worked at BBC World service, BBC Afrique and Focus on Africa and made reports on African music and cultural matters. Tsigue Shiferaw has interviewed African artists such as Oumou Sangaré, Angélique Kidjo and Alpha Blondy and has reported about several African cases linked with human rights abuses. |
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Klaus Slavensky (Denmark)
Professional experience as journalist, teacher, and editor. Since 1991 Director of the Information and Documentation Department at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Author and editor of publications on Human Rights issues. Founding member of Freemuse. |
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Layla Al-Zubaidi (Lebanon/Germany)
The director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Middle East Office in Beirut, Lebanon. Has studied Ethnology, Middle Eastern Studies and Archaeology in Germany and the US, and holds a Masters degree from Freie Universität Berlin. Specialised in issues of development, culture and media, and has published the study ‘Walking a Tightrope: News Media and Freedom of Expression in the Arab Middle East’ (2004). In 2005, she coordinated the regional conference ‘Freedom of Expression in Music’ in Beirut organised by Freemuse in collaboration with HBF. |
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| Awards and recognition |
| List of a number of international prizes and awards and words of recognition which Freemuse has received for its work |
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| Charter |
| The purpose and constitution of Freemuse |
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| Declaration |
| Declaration from the 1st World Conference on Music and Censorship in November 1998 |
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| Freemuse 'Ambassadors' |
| The 'Freemuse Ambassadors' are typically musicians or music promoters who support the Freemuse cause |
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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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| Freemuse enters MySpace |
| If MySpace was a country it would be among the ten largest countries in the world. On 2 May 2007, Freemuse became a citizen there. Read why Freemuse has entered MySpace. |
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| Freemusepedia |
| Timeline of incidents of music censorship world-wide |
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| Log-on for members of Freemuse Executive Committee |
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