Appendix 6 - International Music Council

Music Fund is an initiative of Belgian NGO Oxfam-Solidarité and the Belgium music
ensemble Ictus. It is supported by the Flemish Community, the French Community and the
Federal Government of Belgium and other private sponsors.
(http://paironisrpal.canalblog.com/archives/2007/01/05/3615835.html;
http://www.musicfund.be)
Croatia
At the beginning of the war in the 1990s most repertoires called for peace in official media.
On the battle fields, however, they were provocative songs. Later the provocative music
was played in the official media because people demanded this music.
In today's Croatia so called "ethno music" or "world music" is associated with peace.
(personal communication Grozdana Marosevic)
France
HIP-HOP AND VIOLENCE
In connection with the riots in the French suburbs 201 French members of parliament under
the leadership of
the conservative François Gosdidier (UMP) called upon the French
minister of justice, Pascal Clément, to submit French Hip hoppers to court because of racist
attitudes and the glorification of violence in their lyrics. The hip hop Crews Le 113,
Ministère Amer and Lunatic as well as the rappers Smala, Dabe, Salif and Monsieur R are
accused to praise "racism under the disguise of anti-racism" and to agitate their audience to
the riots in the suburbs.
Other voices defend French Hip hoppers because they have been criticizing the situation
in
the suburbs for a long time.
Germany
WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA
The Israeli conductor Daniel
Barenboim has been working in Germany for a long time. He
was conductor
in the Bayreuth Festival from 1981 to 1999. Since 1992, he is the art
director and musical
director of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (German State Opera
Berlin). He received awards for his political music projects aiming for a better
understanding of the Israeli and Palestine population. One of his projects is the West-
Eastern Divan Orchestra, an orchestra that Barenboim founded together
with the
Palestinian literary critic Edward Said. It is composed of young musicians from Israel and
Arabic states. The project promotes the dialogue between different cultures. (http://west-
easterndivan.artists.warner.de/)
KREUZBERGER MUSIKALISCHE AKTION
The private association "Kreuzberger Musikalische
Aktion" offers music and dance
facilities to children and adolescents in a problematic district of Berlin. 700 children and
adolescents make use of this offer. Since 2005 the German rock star Marius Müller
Westernhagen and an important magazine support the project giving the local project an
enormous publicity. The project wants to integrate young people with different
backgrounds. (http://www.buendnis-
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