Music and the Politics of Censorship

From the Fascist Era to the Digital Age

Edited by James Garratt

Book cover: Music and the Politics of Censorship

Extent: 480 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Communications, Film, & Media Studies, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences

Series: Music, Criticism & Politics

Series volume number: 12

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2025)

ISBN: 9782503618463

Price: $175.00

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Synopsis
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This book aims to enhance our understanding of censorship practices.

In relation to music, the word censorship immediately calls to mind the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, in particular those of Nazi Germany and the USSR. But music censorship is arguably even more prominent and pervasive in our own age, not only in authoritarian states but also in Western liberal democracies. This book aims to enhance our understanding of censorship practices, the social and political values they serve, and the governmental and legal frameworks that have enabled them to flourish. Its twenty chapters – written by a team of international scholars – explore both historical case studies and the new forms of censorship that have emerged in the digital age. It evaluates different theories and models for understanding censorship, applying the concept not only to top-down government controls but also to the measures that cultural institutions, the media, and global corporations have put in place to police music and musicians. Crucial too is the exploration of how music censorship relates to other forms of political action, including cancelling, critique, and performative activism. The book also reveals the diverse strategies that musicians and listeners have employed to circumvent censorial control and to march to a different beat.

Edited by James Garratt

Other Titles in this Series

Music and Resistance

From 1900 to the Present

Volume 9

Edited by Contreras Zubillaga Edited by Helena Martin Nieva

Music and Power in the Baroque Era

Volume 6

Edited by Rudolf Rasch

Music Criticism 1900-1950

Volume 7

Edited by Jordi Ballester Edited by German Gan Quesada

Music Criticism 1950-2000

Volume 8

Edited by Roberto Illiano Edited by Massimiliano Locanto

Music and War in Europe from the French Revolution to WWI

Volume 2

Edited by Etienne Jardin

Nineteenth-Century Music Criticism

Volume 3

Edited by Teresa Cascudo Garcia-Villaraco

Opera in Search of the Just Ruler for a Unified Italy

Volume 4

Edited by Jehoash Hirshberg

Protest Music in the Twentieth Century

Volume 1

Edited by Roberto Illiano

Dance, Ideology and Power in Francoist Spain (1938-1968)

Volume 5

Edited by Beatriz Martinez del Fresno Edited by Belen Vega Pichaco

Music and Colonialism in Fascist Italy

Identity, Propaganda, and Ethnographic Representation

Volume 13

By (author) Isabella Abbonizio

Music and Institutions in Fascist Italy

Volume 10

Edited by Roberto Illiano Edited by Luca Levi Sala

Luigi Dallapiccola between Politics, Text and Musical Thought

With an Appendix of New Sources

Volume 11

Edited by Roberto Illiano

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