Charles Amirkhanian Collection ➔ Composer-to-Composer Festival: Censorship and Social Change (July 14, 1990)

Digital Audio

Event Type

Lectures and Panel Discussions

Origin

C Amirkhanian

Identifier

CTC.1990.07.14.2

Program Series

Composer-to-Composer Festival

Program Length

99 min

Part

4 of 9

Dates

1990-07-14 | created

Description

The second panel discussion on July 14, 1990 during the Composer to Composer Festival focused on censorship and social change. Charles Amirkhanian moderates a discussion with Laurie Anderson, Larry Polansky, Jody Diamond, Ge Gan-Ru, and I Wayan Sadra, including questions and answers with audience members.

After playing excerpts from the first two tracks off of 2 Live Crew’s album “As Nasty As They Wanna Be”, conversations begin on numerous topics revolving around the ideas of artistic expression, political oppression and the use of power, and function of control in the lives of artists.

I Wayan Sadra relays examples of artistic oppression experienced in Indonesia (translated by Jody Diamond), followed by Ge Gan-Ru’s impression to Sadra’s experiences and his own experiences as an artist in China.

Pauline Oliveros and James Tenney offer commentary as audience members.

Peter Yarrow (of Peter Paul & Mary) contributes to the conversation and gives background on his song “Don’t Ever Take Away My Freedom” before playing it for the audience. Ge Gan-Ru closes the panel by commenting on current politically oppressive policies and advises everyone to “keep their eyes open”.

Genres

Current Events

Musical Selections

Me So Horny [excerpt] -- Put Her In the Buck [excerpt] / 2 Live Crew -- Don’t Ever Take Away My Freedom (1972) (6:36) / Peter Yarrow

Performers

Peter Yarrow, guitar and vocals

Subjects

Panel discussions
Censorship
Questions and answers
New music
Rap (Music)

Related Event

Composer-to-Composer Festival, 1990

Related place

Telluride (Colo.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Telluride Institute
Composer-to-Composer Festival
Amirkhanian, Charles
Diamond, Jody
Anderson, Laurie, 1947-
Polansky, Larry, 1954-
Sadra, I Wayan
Ge, Gan-Ru, 1954-
Yarrow, Peter 1938-
2 Live Crew