The rock band Baby Woodrose experienced trouble in connection with the re-issuing of Blows Your Mind. The printer refused to print the cover portraying a nude woman.
Hvad er forskellen på en forfatter og en tekstforfatter?, spørger Freemuse i sit høringssvar til Kulturministeriet, der vil hjælpe verdens forfulgte forfattere, men ikke musikere
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KODA's blad 'KODA / DK' – nr 3, september 2007: 'Hvem er det, der tramper på min CD?' Det amerikanske countryband Dixie Chicks kritiserer den amerikanske invasion af Irak. Og pludselig arrangeres der offentlige ødelæggelser af deres cd’er i protest. Freemuse giver her et indblik i musik og censur og musik som politisk redskab. Af Ole Reitov
Kronik i Politiken – 26. november 2006: 'Den farlige musik' Alle gør det. Iranske ayatollaher og amerikanske supermarkeder. Censurerer musikken. Det skal der gøres noget ved. Af Ole Reitov
Tema om musikcensur i Bolero på DR P2 – fra november 2006 til februar 2007: 'Forbudte takter på P2' 'Musikcensur lever stadig' 'Udsat for censur' 'Tyrkisk musik i kamp' 'Fra forbud til eksil og genopbygning'
Musikbladet, Gymnasiale uddannelser – Marts 2007: Musikcensur i undervisningen - kan du se pointen? Kan man proppe nationalisme, kønsperspektiv, filosofi, religion, historie, sprogpolitik, markedsmekanismer, menneskerettigheder, musikanalyse, æstetik og ideologi ind i musikfaget på gymnasiet?
Af Ole Reitov, Freemuse, og Birgit Fiig, Ordrup Gymnasium
The rock band Baby Woodrose experienced trouble in connection with the re-issuing of Blows Your Mind. The printer refused to print the cover portraying a nude woman.
Hvad er forskellen på en forfatter og en tekstforfatter?, spørger Freemuse i sit høringssvar til Kulturministeriet, der vil hjælpe verdens forfulgte forfattere, men ikke musikere
200 activitsts demonstrated against Jamaican rapper and DJ Elephant Man in Copenhagen on 21 May 2007 because he has incited to violence against homosexuals in his songs
Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad and editor Simon Broughton visit Denmark and Sweden in February 2007 to show three documentary films about music and Islam
Right-wing politician Kenneth Kristensen, chairman of the youth branch of Danish People's Party, called for a “total boycott” of the hip hop band Outlandish
On 5 December 2006, two bare shoulders of a female Norwegian singer became ‘breaking news’ in Denmark with the headline: “Muslim censorship in music show”
On 19 October 2006 two pupils on Køge High School, south of the Danish capital Copenhagen, were convicted for having written a rap song which threatened their teacher
A 17-year-old teenager was arrested for sending death threats in the form of a rap song to the Danish politician Naser Khader, reports the news agency Reuters
Danish musician Chris Poole & Kasper Søeborg Duo and the orchestra Oriental Mood cancelled their tour to Tunisia due to fear that they will be attacked
Turkish musicians signed a petition against attempts to ban the Denmark-based Kurdish Roj TV. The Danish government has been under diplomatic pressure to effect its closure.
A concert on 9 October, in Copenhagen, Denmark, arranged by the Somali network in Denmark was blocked by a group of religious fundamentalists. According to reports, the group told the musicians that “music is the work of the Devil”
