The MoMA removed the artwork of artist Ali Yass in advance to prevent tearing up of the drawings as a form of protest planned by the artist.

» Read on issuu.com Targeting the Arts Documenting incidents of censorship has never been enough. From the very beginning Freemuse has attempted to put censorship of music and arts into a larger context. In 2015 we introduced INSIGHT – a series of articles providing readers with analytical stories on censorship of …

National Coalition Against Censorship in the U.S. has published a toolkit for organising against theatre censorship in public schools, designed to provide students with the resources to navigate tensions in local communities and lead the fight for artistic freedom.

  Amplifying music in the face of censorship A presentation by Austin Dacey, followed by a debate which took place at the conference ‘Right! Freedom of Music & Speech’ on 21 November 2011 in Stockholm. Source See more videos from the conference: right11.se/videos     Related reading on freemuse.org Statement …

17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin was stabbed and killed for listening to rap music on 4 July 2019. The attacker felt "unsafe" because of rap music.

  The story of ‘Footloose’ follows the young dance maniac Ren McCormack, a boy who comes to a small town where loud music and dancing have been banned. Ariel, a small-town girl takes a liking to newcomer Ren who rebels against the local law that bans rock music. He challenges …

University campuses in the USA have been host to the emerging trend of censoring artworks–historical or otherwise–in an extension of what is known as the ‘cancel culture’ movement.

In March 2015, 21-year-old composer Jonas Tarm was about to reach a profound career milestone: His original composition was going to be performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall. But at the last minute, the New York Youth Symphony told Tarm that his Carnegie debut – commissioned by the orchestra as …

Singer and musician Tao Rodríguez-Seeger from USA speaks about his personal experiences with and opinion about music censorship Tao Rodríguez-Seeger was born in New York, USA, in 1972. He is a contemporary folk musician who plays banjo, guitar, harmonica, and sings in Spanish and in English. When he was 16 years old, in …

In a new report to the United Nations assessing the United States’ compliance with its human rights obligations, Freemuse and USA-based NCAC, the National Coalition Against Censorship, argue that the U.S. must do more to protect the rights of youth in public primary and secondary schools as well as the rights of inmates in jails, prisons, and detention centers.