Shoot the Singer! (+ CD) Music Censorship Today

Banning music strangles the very soul of a culture. Shoot the Singer! surveys contemporary cases of music censorship worldwide for the first time. It also examines the causes, methods and logic behind contemporary attempts to prevent people from hearing certain kinds of music by governments, commercial corporations and religious authorities
Freemuse, the compilers of this worldwide survey, is the only organization dedicated to uncovering present day cases of music censorship - affecting both performers and composers - and to developing a global network in support of them.
In this volume, cases come from a surprisingly wide range of countries, including Israel, Turkey, North Korea, Mexico, France, South Africa, Afghanistan, Burma, Cuba and the United States. It is particularly striking how different authorities, in diverse societies, worry enormously about music, and use a broad range of techniques to repress it.

As well as presenting particular cases, this volume also explores the logic behind these concerns (including two instances where censors themselves explain what they were doing). Contributions are from scholars, journalists and the testimony of musicians themselves.
Table of Contents::Preface - Marie Korpe::Part 1: Introduction::1. What is music censorship? Towards a better understanding of the term - Martin Cloonan::2. Music: A parallel stucture of power - Alenka Barber-Kersovan::3. Music as a useless activity: Conservative interpretations of music in Islam - Jonas Otterbeck::Part 2: Asia::4. Singing in a theocracy: Female Musicians in Iran - Ameneh Yussufzadeh::5. Breaking the silence: Censorship in Afghanistan past and present - John Baily::6. Music for the great leader: Policy and practice in North Korea - Keith Howard::7. Burma: Music under siege - Aung Zaw::Part 3: Africa::8. Stopping the music: Censorship in apartheid South Africa - Roger Lucey::9. Roger, me and the scorpion: Working for the South African security services during apartheid - Paul Erasmus::10. Encounters with a South-African censor: Confrontation and reconciliation - Ole Reitov::11. Remembering subversion: Resisting censorship in apartheid South Africa - Michael Drewett::12. Playing with fire: Manipulation of music and musicians in Zimbabwe - Banning Eyre ::13. Guerilla pop: Matoub Lounes and the struggle for Berber identity in Algeria - Andy Morgan::Part 4: The Middle East::14. Women and Music in Iran. Ameneh Youssefzadeh::15. Defending freedom: Blasphemy trials and censorship in Lebanon - Marcel Khalife::16. Songs of Freedom: Cultural resistance in Palestine - Rania Elias::17. The Sound of Silence: Conformist musicians in Israel - Noam Ben-Zeev::Part 4: The Americas::18. Crash into me, baby: America's implicit music censorship since September 11th - Eric Nuzum::19. Havanna and Miami: A music censorship sandwich - Eric Silva Brenneman ::20. Mexico: Drug ballads and censorship today - Elijah Wald::21. Responses to censorship in the US: Acquiescence, Withdrawal and Resistance - Ian Inglis::Part 5: Europe::22. Turkey: censorship past and present - Sanar Yurdatapan::23. French rap - Daniel Brown Free CD Notes Index 240 pp BIC:/JP/GTS/JPVH