The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship

Edited by Patricia Hall

Oxford Handbooks

Addresses censorship as a worldwide issue from its earliest recorded form to the modern day
Includes unique case studies of music censorship unfamiliar to Western audiences
Documents censorship through a necessarily intersectional lens

The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship

Edited by Patricia Hall

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship

Edited by Patricia Hall

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Introduction
Patricia Hall
I. Censorship and Religion
1. In the Quest of Gallican Remnants in Gregorian Manuscripts
Luisa Nardini
2. The English Kyrie Eleison
Alejandro Planchart
3. Government Controls and the Music Printing Industry in the Elizabethan Era
Jeremy L. Smith
4. The Sound of Indigenous Ancestors: Music, Corporality, and Memory in the Jesuit Missions of Colonial South America
Guillermo Wilde
5."We Should Not Sing of Heaven and Angels": Performing Western Sacred Music in Soviet Russia, 1917-67
Pauline Fairclough
6. A Strident Silencing The Ban on Richard Wagner in Israel
Na'ama Sheffi
II. Censorship During the Enlightenment
7. Harpocrate at Work: How the God of Silence Protected Eighteenth-Century French Iconoclasts
Hedy Law
8. Sex, Politics, and Censorship in Mozart's Don Giovanni / Don Juan
Martin Nedbal
9. The Depoliticized Drama: Mozart's Figaro and the Depths of Enlightenment
Laurenz Lütteken
10. The Curious Incident of Fidelio and the Censors
Robin Wallace
III. Censorship in Transitional Governments
11. "Years in Prison": Giuseppe Verdi and Censorship in Pre-Unification Italy
Francesco Izzo
12. Micronarratives of music and (self)censorship in the Former Yugoslavia
Ana Hofman
13. Popular Music as a Barometer of Political Change: Evidence from Taiwan
Nancy Guy
14. Music, Power and Censorship in Vietnam since 1954
Barley Norton
IV. Censorship in Totalitarian States
15. Miguel Ángel Estrella (Classical) Music for the People, Dictatorship, and Memory
Carol Hess
16. A Case Study of Brazilian Popular Music (MPW) and Censorship: Ivan Lins' Music During Dictatorship in Brazil
Thais Lima Nicodemo
17. Alban Berg's "Guilt" by Association
Patricia Hall
18. Slow Dissolves, Full Stops, and Interruptions: Terezin, Censorship, and the Summer of 1944
Michael Beckerman
19. Selling Schnittke:Late Soviet Censorship and the Cold War Marketplace
Peter J. Schmelz
20. Curb that Enticing Tone Music Censorship in the PRC
Hon-Lun Yang
V. Censorship in Democracies
21. From Premiere to Present: Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock and American Culture
David Paul
22. Pete Seeger's Project
Dick Flacks
23. Government Censorship and Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait during the Second Red Scare:
Jennifer DeLapp
24. "A Day in the Life": The Beatles and the BBC, May 1967
Gordon Thompson
VI. Censoring Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation
25. Composing in Black and White: Code-Switching in the Songs of Sam Lucas
Sandra Graham
26. Exploring Transitions in Popular Music: Censorship from Apartheid to Post-Apartheid South Africa
Michael Drewett
27. Rap Music and Rap Artists Revisited: How Race Matters in the Perception of Rap Music
Travis L. Dixon
28. Deaths and Silences: Coding and Defiance in Music about AIDS
Paul Attinello
29. Teaching Silence in the Twenty-First Century: Where are the Missing Women Composers?
Roxanne Prevost and Kimberly Francis
30. Veiled Voices: Music and Censorship in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Ameneh Youssefzadeh

The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship

Edited by Patricia Hall

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Author Information

Edited by Patricia Hall, Professor and Chair of Music Theory, University of Michigan

Patricia Hall is Professor of Music Theory at the University of Michigan. Her publications include A View of Berg's Lulu Through the Autograph Sources (University of California Press, 1997) and Berg's Wozzeck (OUP, 2011).

Contributors:

Paul Attinello is Senior Lecturer in the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University.
Michael Beckerman is Professor of Music at New York University.
Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett is an independent scholar in musicology.
Travis L. Dixon is Communication Alumni Professorial Scholar and Associate Professor of Communication Studies and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Michael Drewett is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rhodes University.
Pauline Fairclough is Reader in Music at the University of Bristol.
Dick Flacks is Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Kimberly Francis is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Guelph.
Sandra Jean Graham is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Arts & Humanities division at Babson College.
Nancy Guy is Professor of Integrative Studies in the Department of Music at the University of California, San Diego.
Patricia Hall is Professor and Chair of Music Theory for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan.
Carol A. Hess is Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of California, Davis.
Ana Hofmann is Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Francesco Izzo is Professor and the Head of Music at the University of Southampton.
Hedy Law is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of British Columbia.
Laurenz Lütteken is Professor of Musicology at the University of Zurich.
Luisa Nardini is Associate Professor of Musicology at The University of Texas, Austin.
Martin Nedbal is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas.
Thais Lima Nicodemo is Researcher in Music at the University of Campinas.
Barley Norton is Reader in Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
David C. Paul is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Alejandro Planchart is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbera.
Roxane Prevost is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Ottowa.
Peter Schmelz is Associate Professor of Music at Arizona State University.
Na'ama Sheffi teaches at the School of Communication at Sapir College, Sderot in Israel.
Jeremy L. Smith is Professor of Musicology at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Gordon Thompson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at Skidmore College.
Robin Wallace is Professor of Musicology at Baylor University.
Guillermo Wilde is Senior Researcher for the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina.
Hon-Lun Yang is Professor of Music History at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Ameneh Youssefzadeh is Co-consulting Editor of Music at Encyclopedia Iranica, and Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York, CUNY Graduate Center.