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| Clear Channel: September 11 & Corporate Censorship |
| Corporate censor no. 1, or just the market leader? A collection of articles on Clear Channel - including the debate on the infamous list of 'potentially offensive songs', which Clear Channel suggested its 1.300 radio stations not to play following the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US |
| 01 December 2002 |
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| New code Down Under |
| Australians under 18 years old could soon be barred from purchasing CDs by artists such as Eminem, the Rolling Stones, and Tori Amos |
| 13 November 2002 |
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| Turkish reforms music to Kurds ears |
| The Kurdish hills are alive with the sound of music now that key changes in Turkey have enabled Kurdish musicians to come out of the closet |
| 22 October 2002 |
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| Aghan police beat musicians defying ban |
| Police beat two Afghan musicians and threatened to bomb their office for violating a local ban on music reminiscent of that imposed by the former Taliban regime |
| 16 October 2002 |
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| Public Enemy vs MTV |
| MTV will not show the video for 'Gotta Give the Peeps What They Need' |
| 14 October 2002 |
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| China: Moon Hee-jun's song banned |
| The song "Media," included in Moon Hee-jun's second album, was banned by all three major broadcast stations (KBS, MBC, and SBS) for attacking mass media |
| 30 August 2002 |
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| Heavy sentence for singing in Kurdish |
| The National Security Court (DGM) of Istanbul has given between 3-9 years prison sentence to the band Koma Denge Asiti for performing in Kurdish. The band had been charged with "aiding and abetting the PKK" |
| 04 June 2002 |
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| Eminem censors himself |
| Despite the liberal use of expletives in the average Eminem sentence it appears that Slim Shady draws the line at playing his music to his young daughter... |
| 31 May 2002 |
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| 9/11: Is protest music dead? |
| Music used to be the dominant voice against war. Now it's easier to shut up and get paid. What's really going on? Extensive article on 9/11 effects and media concentration, by Jeff Chang |
| 16 April 2002 |
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| Ban the bomb |
| Primal Scream’s new album looks set to be banned in the U.S. - for featuring their controversial song ‘Bomb the Pentagon’. The song, a bitter attack on US foreign policy, was premiered live just before the September 11 terror attacks |
| 10 April 2002 |
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| The dangerous music |
| The adventures of Sulhattin Onen, a minibus driver who, by playing a Kurdish music cassette, had "aided and abetted the PKK". Onen was sentenced to 3 years in prison for playing Kurdish Music |
| 10 April 2002 |
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| Local TV censored |
| A 200-year-old Kurdish song caused the closure last week of a television station operating in southeastern Turkey, home to the country's Kurdish population. Gun-TV was taken off air on Friday for one month after broadcasting the song |
| 29 March 2002 |
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| Thomas Mapfumo returns to Zimbabwe |
| Interview with Thomas Mapfumo on his first performances at home in almost a year, his new album ‘Chimurenga Rebel’, and the prospects for Zimbabwe's immediate future |
| 15 February 2002 |
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| Pre-election tension in Zimbabwe |
| In the run-up to the elections in March, artists in Zimbabwe fear that they may find themselves in trouble if their performance suggests criticism of the government |
| 14 February 2002 |
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| Ngawang Choephel: For love of music |
| The story of Ngawang Choephel - a Tibetan musician, ethnomusicologist and filmmaker, who was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by the Chinese authorities |
| 20 January 2002 |
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| FCC Reversal: Eminem Not Obscene |
| The FCC has decided that it would not punish a local radio station for airing a bleeped-out version of 'The Real Slim Shady' |
| 12 January 2002 |
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