Researching music censorship
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Freedom of expression and its direct counterpart, censorship and silencing, are increasingly gaining attention in the world of art and culture. Through the growth of social media and its worldwide distribution, arts and cultural products are shared, and the increased visibility and audibility of culture is highlighted through iconic and pivotal clashes, such as the fatwa on The Satanic Verses in 1989, the recurring bans on the music of Wagner, the alleged censorship of playlists following 9/11, and the cartoon crisis in 2006. This volume takes the discussion directly to the field of music studies in a broad frame and insists on examining music censorship in a global perspective. The book addresses the important and increasingly relevant issue of scholarship on music censorship and thus contributes to a detailed understanding of the phenomenon. Often, words and semantic meaning are held to be determining to the restrictions on musicians and singers, but as this collection documents, the reasons for censorship might not always be found in verbal messages. Rather, the positioning of a more broad understanding of why and how music can convey meaning and accordingly trigger censorship and bans is at the heart of this work. The complexity of music censorship includes historical, structural as well as emotional listenings and interpretations of sound. The topic, accordingly, is political, as well as scholarly urgent.
Table of Contents
Introduction : research persectives on the study of music censorship / Annemette Kirkegaard and Joan Otterbeck.
A right ding dong : the death of Margaret Thatcher anad music censorship in the digital age / Martin Cloonan.
Silencing artists : reflections on music censorship in the case of Mahsa Vahdat / Annemette Kirkegaard
Enraged and defiant : revolutionary artists against the state in Morocco and Egypt / Mark LeVine.
Roma and "their" music in south-eastern Europe : silenced voices? exclusion, racism, and counter-strategies / Ursula Hemetek.
Finlandisation and the restriction of Karelian voices at the height of the Cold War / Pekka Suutari and Helmi Järviluoma.
Sifting through truths in Guinean music / Nommi Dave.
"His bird doesn't stand up" : gendered dimensions of music censorship in Turkey / Thomas Solomon.
Controversial music : a postcolonial reading of D.O. Misiani's Bem en bim and Wainaina's Nchi ya kitu kidogo / Emily Achieng' Akuno.
Australian media classification : depictions, descriptions, and child protection as logic of regulation / Andrew Whelan.
"With a voice like a gun" : Brazilian popular music, censorship, and strategies of resistance during the Brazilian military dictatorship's anos de chumbo [leaden years] (1968-1974) / Holly Holmes.
"N-songs" in multicultural Finland / Antti-Ville Kärjä.
The sound body / Deborah Kapchan.
Censoring Wagner / John Hutnyk
Concluding remarks : researching music censorship in perspective / Helmi Järviluoma, Annemette Kirkegaard, Jan Sverre Knudsen, and Jonas Otterbeck.
Publication Information
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017
ISBN
9781443886178
Keywords
Islam, music and popular culture, Sunni discourse, Wahabi, contemporary, Saudi Arabia
Recommended Citation
Kirkegaard, A.
, Järviluoma, H.
, Knudsen, J. S.
, Otterbeck, J.
(Eds.).
(2017). Researching music censorship, p. 345.
Available at:
https://ecommons.aku.edu/books/116