Don't Stop The Music! Read about the songs they tried to ban, the musicians stopped from playing live, and the singers who are put on trial, in the bumper SMASHED HITS issue of Index DANIEL BARENBOIM Bring music, bring life: An exclusive interview...
CLICK HERE FOR STOCKISTS AND SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Don't Stop The Music! Read about the songs they tried to ban, the musicians stopped from playing live, and the singers who are put on trial, in the bumper SMASHED HITS issue of Index DANIEL...
My song Beng Beng Beng was a simple, light-hearted love song coming from an African man’s perspective.
In the summer of 1977 I was 15 years old and wore an old tropical linen jacket I’d bought in a charity shop for a quid. It wasn’t so much off-white as ruinous, and it matched the colour of my shoes --- winkle-pickers I’d painted myself using some...
Cameroonian singer Lapiro de Mbanga gives an exclusive interview to Daniel Brown from prison on protest, politics and the art of satire
In the new issue of Index on Censorship magazine, Daniel Barenboim tells Clemency Burton-Hill why music provides a model for living and governments continue to fear the power of its influence
Mike Harris on the death of Aleh Byabenin in Belarus
Irwan Abdul Rahman, a Malaysian editor and blogger known as "Hassan Skodeng" was charged on 2 September 2010 with publishing false information on his satirical blog. He was accused of publishing online content deemed "obscene, indecent, false,...
Classified ad site Craigslist has closed its "Adult Services" section, after a campaign by 17 states to have it removed. Attorneys general from Montana to Virginia wrote a letter to Craigslist chief executive Jim Buckmaster last month, urging him...
Smashed Hits on the BBC
Index on Censorship is deeply concerned by the suspected suicide of one of Belarus’s leading human rights activists, Aleh Byabenin. Byabenin was found dead in his country house on the outskirts of Minsk yesterday (Friday 3 September) at 5.30pm local time by a family friend. No suicide note was found
Press release – 2 September 2010 Daniel Barenboim, Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, Femi Kuti, Will Self and Gilad Atzmon discuss music and censorship in the new issue of Index on Censorship ‘Smashed Hits 2.0’ – publication date 8 September. In...
