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SPEECHES AND PRESENTATIONS Below is a selection of speeches, presentations, panel debates and testimonies. Newest first IASPM Conference 2007: Speech by Andrés Contreras Presentation at the IASPM conference for popular music researchers from the whole world - in 2007 held in Mexico City. Andrés Contreras 27 June 2007 IASPM Conference 2007: Speech by Ole Reitov Freemuse presentation at the IASPM conference for popular music researchers from the whole world - in 2007 held in Mexico City Ole Reitov 27 June 2007 Selda Bagcan: speech - November 2006 Video of Turkish singer Selda Bağcan's testimony at the third Freemuse World Conference where she speaks about her personal experiences with music censorship in Turkey Mik Aidt 15 May 2007 Ferhat Tunç: speech - November 2006 Video of speech by Kurdish-Turkish musician and composer Ferhat Tunç, held in Istanbul in November 2006 at the 3rd Freemuse World Conference 15 January 2007 Beirut Conference 2005: Speech by Ali Abu Shadi At the Freemuse conference in Beriut, October 2005, Ali Abu Shadi spoke about his work as the chairman of the central Censorship Department in Egypt Anne Nybo 29 November 2005 Beirut Conference 2005: Speech by Mai Ghoussoub Mai Ghoussoub - an artist and founder of London’s Saqi Books - gave this keynote speech on the underlying issues of censorship at the Beirut conference in October, 2005. Anne Nybo 29 November 2005 Beirut Conference 2005: Speech by Moe Hamzeh Moe Hamzeh, a Lebanese producer and rock musician, tells his story. He performs with his band ‘The Kordz’ every Saturday at the club Nova in Beirut, Lebanon. Anne Nybo 29 November 2005 Presentation of Zimbabwe report by Banning Eyre The author of the Freemuse report "Playing with Fire: Fear and Self-Censorship in Zimbabwean Music", Banning Eyre, introduces his work on this video from WOMEX 2001. 30 October 2001 Afghanistan report launch: welcome speeches Speeches at the launch of the Freemuse report “Can you stop the birds singing?”, London 2001 Moris Farhi, Marie Korpe 01 May 2001 Music and Censorship - An Introduction by Ole Reitov Speech at UNESCO Stockholm, March 31st 1998. Ole Reitov 01 January 2001 South Africa: 'The Censored meet their Censor' 1998: Sipho Mabuse and Ray Phiri, musicians from South Africa, in a first face to face meeting with former censor, Ms. Cecile Pracher, manager of the record library at SABC. Freemuse 01 January 2001 1st Freemuse World Conference - the speeches All speeches held at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1998. (PDF document, 98 pages). 01 January 2001 Afghanistan: The talibans have banned all music Mr. Naim Majrouh's speech at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship in 1998 01 January 2001 Argentina: Culture and the development of a lasting freedom Mr. Miguel Angel Estrella's speech at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship in 1998 01 January 2001 Croatia: Music and Censorship in ex-Yugoslavia Mr. Svanibor Pettan's speech at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship in 1998 01 January 2001 Denmark: Censorship on music during the German occupation Mr. Hans Skaarup's speech at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship in 1998 01 January 2001 Mauritania: A Letter From Maalouma Ms. Maalouma Meida Mint's speech at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship in 1998 01 January 2001 Sudan: Can't dance / won't dance? Mr. Peter Verney's speech at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship in 1998 01 January 2001 The Situation of Musicians in the Arab World Mr. Bashar Shammout's speech at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship in 1998 01 January 2001 UK: Britain at War Mr. Martin Cloonan's speech at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship in 1998 01 January 2001 USA: The Marilyn Manson Saga Ms. Nina Crowley's speech at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship in 1998 01 January 2001 The Market and Media Censors - panel debate Panel discussion at the 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship in Copenhagen in 1998 with Noam Ben-Zeev, Gerald Seligman, and Martin Cloonan. Moderator: Johan Fornäs 01 January 2001