- Belarusian rock
Belarus ian rock has been developing from the early 1980s. The most important rock bands include Mroja (later asN.R.M. ), Bonda, Krama,Kriwi , Neuro Dubel,ULIS , Novaje Nieba, Palac.Basovišča is the most important Belarusian rockmusic festival . Other festivals in the field are "Right to be free", "Rock-kola" etc.There is another side to Balarusian music life which is censorship. Researchers Maya Medich and Lemez Lovas reported in 2006 that "independent music-making in Belarus today is an increasingly difficult and risky enterprise", and that the Belarusian government "puts pressure on ‘unofficial’ musicians - including ‘banning’ from official media and imposing severe restrictions on live performance." In a video interview on freemuse.org the two authors explain the mechanisms of censorship in Belarus. [http://www.freemuse.org/sw19372.asp]
Lemez Lovas and Maya Medich: 'Hidden Truths – Music, Politics and Censorship in Lukashenko’s Belarus' (Freemuse Report no. 7) [http://www.freemuse.org/sw21039.asp]
Articles on music censorship in Belarus [http://www.freemuse.org/sw1399.asp]
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