Smashed Hits 2.0: Music Under Pressure (Index on Censorship) - Softcover

 
9780857025319: Smashed Hits 2.0: Music Under Pressure (Index on Censorship)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0857025317 ISBN 13: 9780857025319
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Don′t Stop the Music!

Read about the songs they tried to ban, the musicians stopped for playing live, and the singers who are put on trial in the bumper Smashed Hits issue of Index.

What a Carve Up!

Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Clash manager Peter Jenner on hidden censorship in the music biz.

Yalla!

Cairo, Beirut, Amman: Musician Khyam Allami travel the middle east

Finding Bird

Jazz star Gilad Atzmon on Charlie Parker

Kurdish Blues

Kaya Genc on the singers they try to silence

My Life is Under Threat

Lapiro de Mbanga speaks to Index from his Prison Cell

Plus!

Chaza Charafeddine′s Unmissable Divine Comedy Exhibition

Index on Censorship is an award-winning magazine, devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. International in outlook, outspoken in comment, Index on Censorship reports on free expression violations around the world, publishes banned writing and shines a light on vital free expression issues through original, challenging and intelligent commentary and analysis, publishing some of the world′s finest writers.

Forthcoming December 2010: Issue 39/4,

Writers in Prison

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www.indexoncensorship.org: the place to turn for free up-to-the-minute free expression news and comment

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About the Author

Jo Glanville is Director of English PEN and joined the organization in September 2012 from Index on Censorship, where she served as an award-winning Editor since 2006.

From the Back Cover

This issue of Index on Censorship looks at censorship in music, including the songs they tried to ban, the musicians stopped for playing live, and the singers who are put on trial. With contributions by Radiohead's Colin Greenwood, legendary band manager Peter Jenner and novelist Will Self.

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Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0857025317
ISBN 13 
9780857025319
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
186
Editor
Glanville Jo