Freemuse
| Freemuse | |
|---|---|
| purpose | Human rights organization |
| Chair: | Martin Cloonan |
| Establishment date: | 1998 |
| Seat : | Copenhagen |
| Website: | www.freemuse.org |
Freemuse is an international non-governmental organization based in Copenhagen that promotes artistic freedom around the world.
Founding history
Freemuse was founded in 1998 at the World Conference on Music and Censorship in Copenhagen to take action against specific human rights violations against musicians and composers worldwide. The organization sees the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations as its working basis and regards the possibility of free expression through music as a fundamental human right. In 2011 the organization expanded its scope of activity, originally limited to music, to include all forms of artistic expression.
Working method
The main focus of Freemuse's work is the documentation of censorship and persecution and attacks against artists, informing other human rights organizations and the public, the worldwide networking of persecuted artists and their support e.g. B. in the case of arrests or in court proceedings.
Freemuse gained worldwide attention with the organization of the annual Music Freedom Day and the Freemuse World Conference on Censorship in Music, which took place twice in Copenhagen and once in Istanbul .
Freemuse Award
Since 2008, the association has been giving the Freemuse Award sponsored by the Björn Afzelius International Culture Foundation to people who are outstandingly committed to musical freedom of expression. In 2008 he was awarded to the Ivorian reggae musician Tiken Jah Fakoly , who was expelled from his home country because of his political commitment. In 2009 the well -known American singer Pete Seeger received it , in 2010 the Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat, who is only allowed to perform in Iran under strict conditions, and the Turkish - Kurdish musician Ferhat Tunç , who is due to his commitment to the rights of the Kurds in Turkey has been arrested several times on alleged terrorism suspicions and has been supported by Freemuse for several years. In 2011 the Egyptian singer Ramy Essam was honored, whose song Irhal became known as the hymn of the revolution in Egypt in 2011 . In 2013, for the first time , the Freemuse Award was not given to a person or group, but to the Festival au Désert , a music festival in Mali that cultivates the region's musical culture and is exposed to threats from terrorism.
Awards
In 2003, Freemuse received the WOMEX Award at the World Music Expo for its work against the censorship of music . In 2009 the International Music Council of UNESCO presented Freemuse with the IMC Musical Rights Award .
In 2014 Freemuse received the Award of Distinction from the Prix Ars Electronica .
Publications
Freemuse occasionally publishes reports on various aspects of musical censorship, which appear in book form, but can also be downloaded for free from the organization's website.
In May 2010 Free Muse released the World Music - Sampler Listen to the Banned songs by artists who were in their home countries victims of censorship or persecution.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Us, official Freemuse website, accessed May 30, 2018
- ↑ arte on November 29, 2002 ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ taz on November 30, 2006
- ↑ CBC / Radio-Canada on March 3, 2007
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau on March 6, 2008
- ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung on February 15, 2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Freemuse: Egyptian singer Ramy Essam is Award winner 2011 ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Freemuse Award winner 2013: 'Festival in the Desert' in Mali ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 6, 2013, accessed April 16, 2014.
- ↑ Official website of the WOMEX trade fair ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Report on the IMC website
- ↑ Prix Ars Electronica - Winner 2014 ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2013) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 3, 2014.
