Freemuse: Afghanistan pulls cable channels (original) (raw)
| NEWS12 November 2004 |
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| Afghanistan pulls cable channelsCable TV channels showing raunchy Bollywood movies and foreign music videos have - again - been taken off air in Afghanistan by the government. Viewers have been able to watch foreign channels, including much-loved Indian films, since the Taleban fell in 2001. Bollywood movies were banned under the hardline Taleban rulers.Cable TV was also banned for a time in 2003 for being un-Islamic following complaints about "half-naked singers and obscene scenes from movies".Story from BBC |  Read more: Freemuse report on censorship of music in Afghanistan |
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| Aziz Ghaznawi |
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| Video interview with an authority on music administration in Afghanistan. He talks about how music was censored within Radio Television Afghanistan |
| 25 February 2008 |
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| The multinational rock trio White City from Kabul explains what it involves to play rock music in today's Afghanistan |
| 15 August 2011 |
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| Afghanistan: Witnessing a resurge in music |
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| Pashto music can now be heard in almost every nook and corner of Afghanistan, reported PRlog |
| 24 November 2010 |
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| Somalia: Al-Shabaab bans music like the Taliban |
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| 23 August 2010 |
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| Afghanistan and Pakistan: Understanding the Taliban's campaign against music |
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| Ethnomusicologist John Baily and Freemuse executive director Marie Korpe speak about the Taliban�s campaign against music and musicians in Afghanistan and Pakistan |
| 23 June 2009 |
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| Afghanistan: Music programmes lead to arrest |
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| 0n 24 March 2009, Afghanistan�s attorney general office arrested the manager of Amroz TV because of the station's broacast of certain music programmes |
| 25 March 2009 |
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| Afghanistan: Short video about music and 'community censorship' |
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| In a short documentary video about music and 'community censorship' in Afghanistan, the 19-year-old Afghan singer Mariam says she gets verbal abuse all the time |
| 14 July 2008 |
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| Afghanistan: Singing ban is illegal, says governor |
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| During Music Freedom Day 2008, governor Ata Mohammed Noor announced that he would try to solve the problem with the ban preventing male artists from singing at weddings |
| 04 March 2008 |
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| Afghanistan - special report: The cage is singing |
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| Freemuse Special Report, 'The cage is singing', is an in-depth report with ten video interviews and a book about music censorship in Afghanistan - past and present |
| 25 February 2008 |
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| Farhad Darya |
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| Video interview with Afghanistan's star singer who gives examples of songs which were censored in the period of communist parties in Afghanistan, starting from 1979 |
| 25 February 2008 |
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| Fazl-u-Rahman Wahdat |
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| Video interview with a Pashto folk singer and board member of Afghanistan Music Union. He speaks about the problems which a praisal singer faces when a regime changes |
| 25 February 2008 |
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| Safdar Tawakoli |
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| Video interview with a Hazara folk singer who explains about his problems as a musician during the Mujahidin period where power in the capital of Afghanistan was fragmented |
| 25 February 2008 |
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| Zhakfar Hussaini |
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| Video interview with a music censor. He worked as a censor in Afghanistan Writers Association in Balkh in 1986-1992 |
| 25 February 2008 |
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| Afghanistan / UK: Film festival celebrates banned music |
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| A film festival in Edingburgh entitled 'Reel Afghanistan' celebrates the Afghan art form which was banned by the Taliban: music |
| 18 February 2008 |
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| Afghanistan: Female musicians put their lives in danger |
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| A report from a music school in Kabul is a story about the kind of difficulties and dangers female musicians face in present day Afghanistan. They must work in secret |
| 15 January 2008 |
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| Afghanistan: Bomb hits music shop |
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| A bomb exploded in a music shop in a small town in Eastern Afghanistan and hurt the shopkeeper |
| 23 October 2007 |
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| Afghanistan: Famed exiled singer returned after 18 years |
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| One of "Afghanistan's living treasures", Ustada Farida Mahwash stepped foot in Afghanistan for the first time in almost two decades to give a series of benefit concerts |
| 23 October 2007 |
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| Pakistan: Fine for playing music in taxi, music shop attacked |
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| The Taliban in Pakistan's in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan are imposing a fine of 500 rupees for any one playing music in public, reports several news agencies |
| 03 March 2007 |
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| Mirwaiss Sidiqi: Music in Afghanistan 2006 |
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| Video interview with Mirwaiss Sidiqi about the situation in Afghanistan in 2006 concerning music - and the Taliban's religous ban on music |
| 11 January 2007 |
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| Afghanistan: Fewer music prohibitions on religious grounds |
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| Excerpts from a report on the situation in Afghanistan by U.S. Department of State, entitled �International Religious Freedom Report 2006�, released on 15 September 2006 |
| 28 September 2006 |
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| Afghanistan: Singing about women critised by imam |
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| Afghan DJ Besho has been criticised by an influential cleric among Afghanistan�s religious �lite: "Singing about women and guns is certainly not allowed." |
| 08 May 2006 |
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| Afghanistan: First female music performance in a decade |
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| As the first female singer to take to the stage in Afghanistan in more than a decade, Tajik singer Maniza Daulat performed for 1,500 male fans in Kabul |
| 25 January 2006 |
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| Afghanistan: Strict self-censorship on Afghan music tv |
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| No rap and no sexy content. These are the rules for the producer of a popular music television program in Afghanistan. Interview |
| 10 January 2006 |
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| Afghanistan: Seven musicians killed by gunmen |
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| The popular singer Qhurban Nazar and six musicians have been killed by gunmen in northern Afghanistan, reports BBC News |
| 26 September 2005 |
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| Afghanistan: Musicians unite against censorship |
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| 130 Afghans have established a new musician�s organisation, the Afghanistan Music Foundation, to fight against music censorship and oppression of musicians |
| 25 May 2005 |
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| Abdul Samay Hamed: Censorship conference in Afghanistan |
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| In this interview the Afghan poet Zhakfar Hussaini explains the way song lyrics were censored in the communist periods in Afghanistan |
| 26 February 2005 |
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| Afghanistan pulls cable channels |
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| Cable TV channels showing raunchy Bollywood movies and foreign music videos have - again - been taken off air in Afghanistan by the government |
| 12 November 2004 |
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| Afghanistan: The sound of music |
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| After the silence of the Taliban years, Afghanistan is beginning to hum again |
| 27 May 2004 |
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| Afghanistan report Post Scriptum, 2003 |
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| Post Scriptum by John Baily to the report: "Can you stop the birds singing?" The censorship of music in Afghanistan |
| 24 September 2003 |
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| Musicians claim police harassment |
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| Pakistani musicians living near the country's border with Afghanistan have complained they are being harassed by hardliners attempting to stamp out music and movies |
| 08 April 2003 |
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| Dangerous Music |
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| Listen to 2nd World Conference on Music and Censorship broadcast from Radio Netherlands . Interviews with Gerald Seligman, Executive Committee member of Freemuse, Farhad Darya ( Afghanistan), Sanar Yurdatapan (Turkey) |
| 08 January 2003 |
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| Afghan music: Concerto for shattered instruments, broken lives and new dreams |
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| Article on charity concert, organized by Freemuse report writer John Baily, and the BBC documentary 'Breaking the Silence - Music in Afghanistan' |
| 10 March 2002 |
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| Breaking the Silence: Music in Afghanistan |
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| BBC documentary by Simon Broughton on music after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan |
| 01 March 2002 |
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| Ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan: Past, present, and future |
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| Extensive article by John Baily on musical life in Afghanistan |
| 01 March 2002 |
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| Taliban Killed the Radio Stars |
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| Extensive article on the future of music in Afghanistan after the Taliban |
| 16 November 2001 |
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| The hills are alive |
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| With the rout of the Taliban, Afghanistan is once again resounding to the sound of music. But why does the lifting of the ban have such significance? |
| 15 November 2001 |
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| A culture muted |
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| By banning music, the Taliban have removed an important force for unity. Article include interview with John Baily, who wrote the Freemuse report on music censorship in Afghanistan |
| 13 October 2001 |
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| Just chant |
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| Music is high on the list of activities banned by the Taliban. Article on the Freemuse report on censorship of music in Afghanistan |
| 04 May 2001 |
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| Freemuse report on censorship of music in Afghanistan |
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| "Can you stop the birds singing?" Freemuse report on the censorship of music in Afghanistan. Abstract, full report (PDF) and musical examples |
| 01 May 2001 |
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| Press launch: Afghanistan report launched in London |
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| Afghanistan report launched in London |
| 01 May 2001 |
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