Music Censorship Today
Zed Books 2004. 228 sidor 15x23cm, s/v foton + CD med tio exempel, bl a Ale Möller med Kuraah Sultan. Nytt ex. Utgivarens beskrivning:
Banning music strangles the very soul of a culture. Shoot the Singer! surveys contemporary cases of music censorship worldwide for the first time. It also examines the causes, methods and logic behind contemporary attempts to prevent people from hearing certain kinds of music by governments, commercial corporations and religious authorities
Freemuse, the compilers of this worldwide survey, is the only organization dedicated to uncovering present day cases of music censorship - affecting both performers and composers - and to developing a global network in support of them.
In this volume, cases come from a surprisingly wide range of countries, including Israel, Turkey, North Korea, Mexico, France, South Africa, Afghanistan, Burma, Cuba and the United States. It is particularly striking how different authorities, in diverse societies, worry enormously about music, and use a broad range of techniques to repress it.
As well as presenting particular cases, this volume also explores the logic behind these concerns (including two instances where censors themselves explain what they were doing). Contributions are from scholars, journalists and the testimony of musicians themselves. Banning music strangles the very soul of a culture. Shoot the Singer! surveys contemporary cases of music censorship worldwide for the first time. It also examines the causes, methods and logic behind contemporary attempts to prevent people from hearing certain kinds of music by governments, commercial corporations and religious authorities.