Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship
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Author Description
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, 1917-67 / 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, Power 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' 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 En
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This volume investigates the multifaceted mechanisms through which political, religious, and social authorities have exerted control over musical expression across diverse historical and geographical contexts. Editor Patricia Hall compiles a series of scholarly essays that examine how censorship functions not merely as a prohibition of sound, but as a complex negotiation between creative agency and institutional power. The contributors utilize archival research and musicological analysis to demonstrate how the regulation of music reflects broader shifts in governance, ideology, and cultural identity.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Historical case studies ranging from Elizabethan England and Enlightenment-era France to Soviet Russia and colonial South America.
- Analysis of the intersection between music, religion, and state-sanctioned morality.
- Examination of self-censorship and the impact of totalitarian regimes on artistic output.
- Methodological approaches to interpreting primary sources, including manuscripts, government records, and performance histories.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts identify this handbook as a comprehensive reference for scholars interested in the intersection of musicology and political history. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which serves as a foundational resource for understanding the systemic suppression of musical works.
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Publication Date:
2017-10-05
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10:
0199984182
ISBN-13:
9780199984183
Music
History
Sociology
Censorship
