Musik und Zensur im Libanon

Zensur ist in der arabischen Welt allgegenwärtig. Filme werden zensuriert, Theaterstücke, Bücher, und Musik auch. Im Libanon sei die Zensur am lockersten, sagt man. So ganz stimmt das jedoch nicht. Oder etwa doch?

Mit den Musiker*innen: The New Government, Marcel Khalife, The Kordz, Weeping Willow, The Arcane, Raed Yassin, Rayess Bek und Nadim Mishlawi. Sprecher: Raphael Zehnder (DRS2), Eric Facon (DRS4), Thomas Burkhalter (Norient).

Biography

Dr. Thomas Burkhalter is an anthropologist/ethnomusicologist, AV-artist, and writer from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient and the Norient Festival (NF), co-directed AV-performances and documentary films (e.g. «Contradict», Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness), and is the author and co-editor of several books (e.g., «Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut», Routledge, «The Arab Avant Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East», Wesleyan University Press). He teaches regularly at universities, and runs workshops for arts institutions. Since 2022 he produces the Norient Mixtape for Swiss National Radio SRF3. Currently, he is working on his new music project «Melodies In My Head», and on the podcast series «South Asian Sound Stories» with musicians from the UK, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. Follow him on Spotify, Research Gate, Academia.edu, Instagram, X, or Facebook.

Biography

Simon Grab, the co-founder of ganzerplatz soundstudios has been an active musician and producer in a wide range of musical contexts. As a composer and sound artist he produces music & sounddesign for feature films, documentaries, theatre and radio. In live performances and installations he uses the venue as an acoustic playground. He likes exploring new grounds by negating existing borders. Follow him on Youtube, Instagram, or BandCamp.

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Golden Beirut
Golden Beirut: New Sounds from Lebanon
€18.00
The first CD release by Norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism.

Published on September 03, 2009

Last updated on October 16, 2020

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