Growing Trends Against Free Musical Expression and Toward the Silencing of Creators

Описание: Growing Trends Against Free Musical Expression and Toward the Silencing of Creators

The International Music Council and National Music Council of the United States present an online symposium featuring panel discussions and interviews with leading international experts and activists.

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PANEL 2: GROWING TRENDS AGAINST FREE MUSICAL EXPRESSION AND TOWARD THE SILENCING OF CREATORS
Julie Trébault, Moderator: Julie Trébault is the director of the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), a project of PEN America that aims to safeguard the right to artistic freedom by connecting threatened artists to support, building a global network of resources for artists at risk, and forging ties between arts and human rights organizations.

Panelists
Mai Khoi: Mai Khoi is an award-winning Vietnamese singer, composer, and activist. Her compositions and vocal performance represent the meeting of diverse musical traditions (Western and non-Western, acoustic and electro-acoustic, etc.) and confound listener expectations with experimental and, at times, highly improvised arrangements. In 2010, she rose to stardom after winning Vietnam’s most prestigious award for songwriting.

Pamela Lopez: Pamela Lopez is a former actress with an MA in Arts Administration (2011) from Columbia University. As a leader in the field, she has worked in organizations such as Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM) in Chile.

Farida Shaheed: Farida Shaheed, a sociologist by training and activist by choice, was the United Nations’ first Special Rapporteur for cultural rights from 2009 to 2015. She dedicated a report in 2013 to the freedom of artistic creativity. Artistic expressions were also highlighted in other reports on, for example, copyright and advertising. In August 2022, she assumed responsibilities as the UN Special Rapporteur for Education.

Sara Whyatt: Sara Whyatt is a campaigner and researcher on freedom of artistic expression and human rights. She headed the writers’ association PEN International‘s freedom of expression program for over 20 years, during which time she campaigned for thousands of writers worldwide who had been imprisoned, attacked and even killed.