Policing Pop
- Editor: Cloonan, Martin
- Editor: Garofalo, Reebee
All in all, Policing Pop takes the reader on quite a ride. Its contributing authors include, among others, musicologists, sociologists, and law professors who offer intellectually rewarding...
Policing Pop
- Editor: Cloonan, Martin
- Editor: Garofalo, Reebee
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All in all, Policing Pop takes the reader on quite a ride. Its contributing authors include, among others, musicologists, sociologists, and law professors who offer intellectually rewarding...
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Fans and detractors of popular music tend to agree on one thing: popular music is a bellwether of an individual's political and cultural values. In the United States, for example, one cannot think of the counterculture apart from its music. For that reason, in virtually every country in the world, some group identifies popular music as a source of potential danger and wants to regulate it. Policing Pop looks into the many ways in which popular music and artists around the world are subjected to censorship, ranging from state control and repression to the efforts of special interest or religious groups to limit expression.The essays collected here focus on the forms of censorship as well as specific instances of how the state and other agencies have attempted to restrict the types of music produced, recorded and performed within a culture. Several show how even unsuccessful attempts to exert the power of the state can cause artists to self-censor. Others point to material that taxes even the most liberal defenders of free speech. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that censoring agents target popular music all over the world, and they raise questions about how artists and the public can resist the narrowing of cultural expression.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I : Defining Issues and Themes
- 1. Call That Censorship? Problems of Definition Martin Cloonan
- 2. I Want My MP3: Who Owns Internet Music" Reebee Garofalo
- 3. Twenty Years of Music Censorship Around the World Vanessa Bastian and Dave Laing
- 4. Remote Control: Legal Censorship of the Creative Process Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn
- Part II : Controlling the Artistic
- 5. Death Metal and the Limits of Musical Expression Keith Kahn-Harris
- 6. Marxists in the Marketplace Mike Jones
- 7. Argh Fuck Kill Canadian Hardcore Goes on Trial: The Case of the Dayglo Abortions Rob Bowman
- 8. Strelnikoff: Censorship in Contemporary Slovenia David Parvo
- Part III : Up Against the State
- 9. Music in the Struggle to End Apartheid: South Africa Michael Drewett
- 10. Confusing Confucius: Rock in Contemporary China Jeroen de Kloet (Holland)
- 11. German Nazi Bands: Between Provocation and Repression Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Germany)
- 12. Popular Music and Policing in Brazil Jose Roberto Zan (Brazil)
- 13. Challenging Music as Expression in the US Paul D. Fischer (US) About the
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All in all, Policing Pop takes the reader on quite a ride. Its contributing authors include, among others, musicologists, sociologists, and law professors who offer intellectually rewarding insights and eloquent arguments for the political and cultural importance of popular music, something with which even young people would agree, if they could be enticed to read them
