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Tyranny and Music (Hardcover)
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Tyranny and Music (Hardcover)
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Tyranny and Music is an edited collection of essays that explore
how musical artists respond to cruel or oppressive governments and
ruling regimes. Its primary strength and unique quality lies in its
diversity, presenting a postmodern collage of scholarship that
reaches across the divides of classical, popular and traditional
musics just as it connects musical resistance of the past with the
present and the near (Western) with the far (non-Western).
Contemporary topics include Chosan's analysis of blood diamonds in
the Sierra Leonean Civil War, and collective memory in the Persian
Gulf War songs. Historical topics include the image of John Wilkes
Booth in the popular imagination, censorship in the Soviet Union,
Victor Ullman's song setting at Terezin, artistic restrictions in
Maoist China, anti-inquisition propaganda in the outbreak of the
Dutch revolt, Revolutionary Era Anthems in the United States and
much more. These essays, while remarkable in their scholarly
erudition, also provide intimate glimpses of the resiliency of the
individual artist. From Cherine Amr's Heavy Metal resistance to the
Muslim Brotherhood to Hanns Eisler's battle with the United States
House on Un-American Activities Committee, stories of human
struggle and perseverance arise from each of these narratives.
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