Belarusian rock

Belarusian rock has been developing from the early 1980s. The most important rock bands include Mroja (later as N.R.M.), Bonda, Krama, Kriwi, Neuro Dubel, ULIS, Novaje Nieba, Palac.

Basovišča is the most important Belarusian rock music 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]