Description
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.
Table of Contents
IntroductionPatricia HallI. Censorship and Religion1. In the Quest of Gallican Remnants in Gregorian ManuscriptsLuisa Nardini2. The English Kyrie EleisonAlejandro Planchart3. Government Controls and the Music Printing Industry in the Elizabethan EraJeremy L. Smith4. The Sound of Indigenous Ancestors: Music, Corporality, and Memory in the Jesuit Missions of Colonial South AmericaGuillermo Wilde5."We Should Not Sing of Heaven and Angels": Performing Western Sacred Music in Soviet Russia, 1917-67Pauline Fairclough6. A Strident Silencing The Ban on Richard Wagner in IsraelNa'ama SheffiII. Censorship During the Enlightenment7. Harpocrate at Work: How the God of Silence Protected Eighteenth-Century French IconoclastsHedy Law8. Sex, Politics, and Censorship in Mozart's Don Giovanni / Don JuanMartin Nedbal9. The Depoliticized Drama: Mozart's Figaro and the Depths of EnlightenmentLaurenz Lütteken10. The Curious Incident of Fidelio and the CensorsRobin WallaceIII. Censorship in Transitional Governments11. "Years in Prison": Giuseppe Verdi and Censorship in Pre-Unification ItalyFrancesco Izzo12. Micronarratives of music and (self)censorship in the Former YugoslaviaAna Hofman13. Popular Music as a Barometer of Political Change: Evidence from TaiwanNancy Guy14. Music, Power and Censorship in Vietnam since 1954Barley NortonIV. Censorship in Totalitarian States15. Miguel Ángel Estrella (Classical) Music for the People, Dictatorship, and MemoryCarol Hess16. A Case Study of Brazilian Popular Music (MPW) and Censorship: Ivan Lins' Music During Dictatorship in BrazilThais Lima Nicodemo17. Alban Berg's "Guilt" by AssociationPatricia Hall18. Slow Dissolves, Full Stops, and Interruptions: Terezin, Censorship, and the Summer of 1944Michael Beckerman19. Selling Schnittke:Late Soviet Censorship and the Cold War MarketplacePeter J. Schmelz20. Curb that Enticing Tone Music Censorship in the PRCHon-Lun YangV. Censorship in Democracies21. From Premiere to Present: Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock and American CultureDavid Paul22. Pete Seeger's ProjectDick Flacks23. Government Censorship and Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait during the Second Red Scare:Jennifer DeLapp24. "A Day in the Life": The Beatles and the BBC, May 1967Gordon ThompsonVI. Censoring Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation25. Composing in Black and White: Code-Switching in the Songs of Sam LucasSandra Graham26. Exploring Transitions in Popular Music: Censorship from Apartheid to Post-Apartheid South AfricaMichael Drewett27. Rap Music and Rap Artists Revisited: How Race Matters in the Perception of Rap MusicTravis L. Dixon28. Deaths and Silences: Coding and Defiance in Music about AIDSPaul Attinello29. Teaching Silence in the Twenty-First Century: Where are the Missing Women Composers?Roxanne Prevost and Kimberly Francis30. Veiled Voices: Music and Censorship in Post-Revolutionary IranAmeneh Youssefzadeh
