Hall Patricia (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship

Oxford University Press, 2018. — 729 p.The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship edited by Patricia Hall presents thirty in-depth studies of music censorship from the eighth century to the present. Th e range of music presented is also very broad, from Gregorian chant to eighteenth- century opera to present- day pop music. Since censorship is a worldwide phenomenon, this volume includes studies from every continent. At the same time, these chapters are representative examples, since it would be impossible to discuss every type of music censorship, a fluid phenomenon that can change daily.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.ContentsAcknowledgments
ContributorsIntroduction
Patricia HallI Censorship and ReligionIn the Quest of Gallican Remnants in Gregorian Manuscripts: Archaisms in the Masses for the Holy Cross in Aquitanian Chant Books
Luisa NardiniThe English Kyrie
Alejandro Enrique PlanchartGovernmental Interference as a Shaping Force in Elizabethan Printed Music
Jeremy L. SmithThe 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– 1964
Pauline FaircloughA Strident Silencing: The Ban on Richard Wagner in Israel
Na’ama SheffiII Censorship during the EnlightenmentHarpocrates at Work: How the God of Silence Protected Eighteenth- Century French Iconoclasts
Hedy LawSex, Politics, and Censorship in Mozart’s Don Giovanni/ Don Juan
Martin NedbalThe Depoliticized Drama: Mozart’s Figaro and the Depths of Enlightenment
Laurenz LuettekenThe Curious Incident of Fidelio and the Censors
Robin WallaceIII Censorship in Transitional Governments“Years in Prison”: Giuseppe Verdi and Censorship in Pre-Unification Italy
Francesco IzzoMicronarratives of Music and (Self-) Censorship in Socialist Yugoslavia
Ana HofmanPopular Music as a Barometer of Political Change: Evidence from Taiwan
Nancy GuyMusic and Censorship in Vietnam Since 1954
Barley NortonIV Censorship in Totalitarian StatesMiguel Angel Estrella (Classical) Music for the People, Dictatorship, and Memory
Carol A. Hess
A Case Study of Brazilian Popular Music and Censorship: Ivan Lins’s Music during Dictatorship in Brazil
Thais Lima NicodemoAlban Berg’s “Guilt” by Association
Patricia HallSlow Dissolves, Full Stops, and Interruptions: Terezнn, Censorship, and the Summer of 1944
Michael BeckermanSelling Schnittke: Late Soviet Censorship and the Cold War Marketplace
Peter J. SchmelzCurb that Enticing Tone: Music Censorship in the PRC
Hon-Lun YangV Censorship in DemocraciesCensorship and the Politics of Reception: The Filmic Afterlife of Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock
David C. PaulPete Seeger’s Project
Dick FlacksGovernment Censorship and Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait during the Second Red Scare
Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett“A Day in the Life”: The Beatles and the BBC, May 1967
Gordon ThompsonVI Censoring Race, Gender, and Sexual OrientationComposing in Black and White: Code- Switching in the Songs of Sam Lucas
Sandra Jean Graham
Exploring Transitions in Popular Music: Censorship from Apartheid to Post-Apartheid South Africa
Michael DrewettRap Music and Rap Audiences Revisited: How Race Matters in the Perception of Rap Music
Travis L. DixonDeaths and Silences: Coding and Defiance in Music About AIDS
Paul AttinelloTeaching Silence in the Twenty- First Century: Where Are the Missing Women Composers?
Roxane Prevost and Kimberly FrancisVeiled Voices: Music and Censorship in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Ameneh YoussefzadehIndex