The Oxford handbook of music censorship / edited by Patricia Hall.

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English
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  • New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018
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xii, 709 pages ; 26 cm

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    Summary note
    "Throughout history and across the globe, governments have taken a strong hand in censoring music. Whether in the interests of "safeguarding" the moral and religious values of their citizens or of promoting their own political goals, the character and severity of actions taken to suppress and control music that has been categorized as unacceptable, immoral, or as the Nazi's termed the music of Jewish and modernist composers, "degenerate," ranges from economic sanctions to forced immigration, imprisonment, and death. Yet in almost all cases composers found methods to counter this suppression and to let their voices be heard, even through the very music they were often forced to compose for the oppressing parties. In this first major collection of its kind, thirty contributors tackle centuries of music censorship across the globe from the medieval era to the modern day. Case studies address a number of instances both well- and lesser-known, including the tumultuous history of Wagner and Israel, rap music in the United States, silencing of women composers, and music in post-revolutionary Iran. Sections are organized by nature of censorship - religious, racial, and sexual - and type of government enforcement - democratic, totalitarian, and transitional. Focusing on individual composers and artists as well as eras within single countries, this Handbook champions the efficacy of music as an agent of collective power and resilience."--Publisher's description
    Notes
    Series from book jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Patricia Hall.
    • Part I. Censorship and religion. In the quest of Gallican remnants in Gregorian manuscripts : archaisms in the masses for the holy cross in Aquitanian chant books / Luisa Nardini
    • The English Kyrie / Alejandro Planchart
    • Government interference as a shaping force in Elizabethan printed music / Jeremy L. Smith
    • The sounds of indigenous ancestors : music, corporality, and memory in the Jesuit missions of colonial South America / Guillermo Wilde
    • "We should not sing of heaven and angels" : performing Western sacred music in Soviet Russia, 1917-1964 / Pauline Fairclough
    • A strident silencing : the ban on Richard Wagner in Israel / Na'ama Sheffi.
    • Part II. Censorship during the Enlightenment. Harpocrates at work : how the god of silence protected eighteenth-century French iconoclasts / Hedy Law
    • Sex, politics, and censorship in Mozart's Don Giovanni/Don Juan / Martin Nedbal
    • The depoliticized drama : Mozart's Figaro and the depths of enlightenment / Laurenz Lütteken
    • The curious incident of Fidelio and the censors / Robin Wallace.
    • Part III. Censorship in transitional governments. "Years in prison" : Giuseppe Verdi and censorship in pre-unification Italy / Francesco Izzo
    • Micronarratives of music and (self- )censorship in Socialist Yugoslavia / Ana Hofman
    • Popular music as a barometer of political change : evidence from Taiwan / Nancy Guy
    • Music and censorship in Vietnam since 1954 / Barley Norton.
    • Part IV. Censorship in totalitarian states. Miguel Ángel Estrella (classical) music for the people, dictatorship, and memory / Carol Hess
    • A case study of Brazilian popular music and censorship : Ivan Lins's music during dictatorship in Brazil / Thais Lima Nicodemo
    • Alban Berg's "guilt" by association / Patricia Hall
    • Slow dissolves, full stops, and interruptions : Terezin, censorship, and the summer of 1944 / Michael Beckerman
    • Selling Schnittke : late Soviet censorship and the Cold War marketplace / Peter J. Schmelz
    • Curb that enticing tone : music censorship in the PRC / Hon-Lun Yang.
    • Part V. Censorship in democracies. Censorship and the politics of reception : the filmic afterlife of Marc Blitzstein's The cradle will rock / David C. Paul
    • Pete Seeger's project / Dick Flacks
    • Government censorship and Aaron Copland's Lincoln portrait during the Second Red Scare / Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett
    • "A day in the life" : The Beatles and the BBC, May 1967 / Gordon Thompson.
    • Part VI. Censoring race, gender, and sexual orientation. Composing in black and white : code-switching in the songs of Sam Lucas / Sandra Jean Graham
    • Exploring transitions in popular music : censorship from apartheid to post-apartheid South Africa / Michael Drewett
    • Rap music and rap audiences revisited : how race matters in the perception of rap music / Travis L. Dixon
    • Deaths and silences : coding and defiance in music about AIDS / Paul Attinello
    • Teaching silence in the twenty-first century : where are the missing women composers? / Roxanne Prevost and Kimberly Francis
    • Veiled voices : music and censorship in post-revolutionary Iran / Ameneh Youssefzadeh.
    Other title(s)
    Music censorship
    ISBN
    • 9780199733163 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 0199733163 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2017034683
    OCLC
    989051745
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