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Mark LeVine (USA):
Globalisation and music censorship in the Middle East |
In this video interview, recorded at a conference on freedom of speech in the Middle East, organised by Pen on 8 September 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the American author and historian Mark LeVine explains about the effects of globalisation in relation to restrictions on music in countries of the Middle East. |
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Mark LeVine on Al Jazeera
'Rocking the system'
In a series of programmes, Al Jazeera's Playlist meets some of the bands that are ensuring that heavy metal is acquiring a growing fan base in the Middle East.
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| Despite a general ban, rock music has become one of the most vibrant forces for critiquing the various ills of Iranian society, writes music researcher Mark Levine |
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| A concert in Shiraz was raided by an Islamist militia, and 104 people arrested, on the grounds of being 'immoral', reported Jam-e Jam newspaper on 27 May 2009 |
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