Censorship In Music

Life in the UK:
In the UK we have a lot of freedom compared to other countries, we still have safety rules that might avoid us from doing something stupid and dangerous but for social media like: listening to music, creating music, performing music at a gig, watching films, going out clubbing, going out to watch a west end musical and lots more things we can do in the UK. In the UK music is very involved in the social media, anyone can get a instrument they want to learn play it whenever they want wherever they want, unless it is late at night or somehwere where you need to keep quite then you can play music wherever you want and whenever you want. In the UK you cannot play music loudly after a certain time which is usually around the time 23:00pm and after. If it was in your house and a neighbour can hear your music and complains then your in trouble. But you can play music at late hours if you play it quietly in your room. Another way you would get in trouble is if you are playing music in your house and living with other people like your parents or friends and they are trying to sleep or do something and they can hear your music then it would bother them and tell you to stop or turn it down. In the UK we have so much going on with media. We have loads of varieties of films that are being published and we can go see either online or at the cinema. The films we have published in the UK has no specific genre or is limited, all films in the UK are free and the directors and writers can express themselves and make a film about what ever they want. There are films that can offend some viewers but not a lot will happen to the film only if the government feel it is inapropriate then the film will be taken down from the public. The T.V shows we get to watch on T.V is very free and there is so many different things to watch stuff like: Comedies, drama's, horrors, news, documenteries about litteraly most things that go on in this world and the list goes on. But those genres are briefly what is shown on T.V and movies. The UK has a lot of west end shows showing, these west end shows have long processes to go through such as: hiring a theatre/venue for the amount of time they want to keep the show going, hold auditions so they have the best performers that suit the specific west end show, hire employees to work with either the lights, costume, make-up, stage set up, props, equipment, people at the bar and to guide people around the hired theatre and many more minor jobs that sometimes is not even known about. The music industry is a huge industry in the UK, which involves lots of record labels spaced around the UK, recording studios, venues for artists/bands to play in, college and universities which specify in music, music being taught in primary and secondary school. There is always something going on that is connected to music. Some people these days grow up picking up something they like with music like: getting introduced to a instrument and master how to play the instrument and get graded with the instrument subject and keep it as a hobby and do something with what they mastered. Or people would start singing and realise they like it and learn how to carry the skill and then become really good at it then make it a career if they want to and by that they can: become a singer teacher or a artist, or get connections and sing on peoples tracks and many more things that are being made to this day. There are many things involved with the music industry but for someone in the music industry it all starts from the bottom which could be primary school, secondary school or college or even a after school club. Something that is very common and that has developed through the years and is now the most useful thing in this world is social network. Social network could involve: phone calling, text messaging, emailing, using social network sites on the Internet and generally talking to people face to face. The Internet has become an addiction to everyone not only in the UK in most countries but not all countries. The internet allows you to email people, use social networking sites like the most common 'facebook' and on facebook you can share photos, videos, message people, share statuses and many more things. There is other not very well known social networking sites but 'facebook' is the most known. In the UK the internet and having a phone is very easy access because the government allows it and the government over the years helped to create technology to allow these things to work.
The UK has a lot of freedom in many ways but like in most countries there is limitations but other then that the UK is very relaxed in most occasions and you can be yourself and carry out your career. Even though the UK is fair and you have to go through school and takes exams to be able to reach your career goal. But if you do not work hard enough and appreciate what the government and schools are giving you then they will first let you know and give you a warning but if things stay the same you will either be taken of the course or not take a exam etc.


Life in the UK is very much different from the life in Iran, in Iran the life is much harder they do not have as much freedom like the UK has. In iran life is much more different in a way of how the life in iran is very limited, the social media, music, freedom, religious views, way of life is very limited. In iran they cannot go and watch films in the cinema daily like we do. The internet is very hard to access there you would have to be very rich to be able to use the internet like us in the UK, because in the UK we all use the internet very often we rely on it for work and assignments and school work, so for us it is very common and not hard to access, people still need to pay for internet but it is not like the internet is hard to access. In iran they have to sometimes even try to get internet from other countries or other homes, it is just not a normal option for them. You would think after the revolution in iran the life there would be much easier but in fact the life in iran has gone much more strict and limited. You have to have the same religious views as each other, leaving iran is not a choice for everyone living there. Getting a passport costs millions for people who want to leave iran because the government there is so strict they don't allow much freedom. But you would think music would be allowed there and music is a worldly aspect of life. But in fact in iran they are very strict about what kind of music you play. Having a talk with kaveh who was living in iran and created a band but was not able to freely develop the bands career and be able to play wherever they want and find gigs like bands in the UK do. He told us how him and his bands mates would find secret hiding places where people would not really hear them, they had to wait for neighbours to leave so they could rehearse together. The type of music kaveh's band would play is rock/indie kind of music and in iran the government made this kind of music illegal, they made any music like pop, rock, jazz etc illegal. So the reason why kaveh and his band would hide their rehearsals and have to limit their time of rehearsal is because if someone would hear them and find out what they were doing, the person would report them to the police and the government and they would just get punished to prison or even be killed. So it was very hard for them to have a music career. They tried to go to someone who sells passports so they could leave iran and have a proper free music life but they could not afford it. Somehow they managed to leave iran but it was a very sudden leave and if they would return to iran they would be in huge danger, they found out about this from a friend living in iran. So Kaveh left the band eventually and is living in the UK having a free life with us. His band ended up touring in america and they were starting to develop a really good music career. The reason in iran music is so limited is because of their religious views, the war in iran does not help the situation because of the war life is very hard there, so freedom is not very optional. People in iran still have freedom but only if they live the way the leader and the government of iran want them to. They do play music in iran but it is more religious kind of music to suit their religious views. Religion is a big part of why iran is so limited with freedom and the social media. Because of their religious views they have made so many things illegal so if anyone would be found doing something illegal that for us in The UK is like a daily thing they would be punished badly or killed.

It is very sad knowing they live with such low freedom, knowing my life in the UK is so relaxed and i can go to do a music course in college and play music whenever i want at good early hours where it does not bother the neighbours or my family. Being able to watch any kind of film in the cinema whenever i want, being able to have access to parties and night life's which is countless. Being able to go watch a full musical theatre show makes me think i have a very good life compared to the life in iran, here in the UK we don't have any wars, the only illegal things that i know of in the UK is how films, alcohol, certain musical theatre shows, clubs are age limited. So people have to be the right age for legal preferences. Also in iran the music they play and the films they make is very limited down to story lines and genres that is agreed with the government. The life in iran was at one point free and people could do what they wanted because of the leader at the time was not leading the country so strictly, the leader let iran be a free place and people had freedom. But after the revolution in 1979 a leader who took over made western music illegal and anyone who had access to that music would be sent to jail with no trial just sent to jail straight away. There was the only exception to be able to listen to big artist's like queen and elton john. Now everything is only something religious and they would only be able to do something religious with a religious view. Because the internet is hard to access people in iran have to hack the internet so like in the UK where we download music or films and apps everyday that takes us litterally 2 seconds or more in iran because the internet is hard to access and they hacked the internet if someone wanted to download something like a song or an album or a film etc it would take them days. In iran it is not an option to go to a music shop purchase a instrument and go home and play it, not like in the UK where there is loads of music shops around in most areas and we can go buy an instrument and teach ourselves how to play it or purchase lessons. If people in iran want to access the internet the censorship made one specific website where they put everything people in iran are allowed to access it is not like us in the UK where we can open millions of pages and go on facebook or open our emails and listen to music on youtube, people in iran do not have that access in any form. They are lucky enough to have one website which gives them the music they are allowed to listen to, the films they can watch etc. But knowing how the internet is hacked and is hard to use i guessing people in iran do not usually waste their time with the internet because it is so limited from censorship. This life in iran stops them from knowing what is going on in the outside world, like in the UK we have news about celebrities and news about other countries and just general news from all over the world. We can listen to music from all over the world. We can access films from all over the world. In the UK we all have a lot of freedom with the world and we get to learn the whole history of it. Because iran is run by a leader with religious law that is why iran is so censored, before 1979 when iran was not run by religious law life was much from free and not censored so much.