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Policing Pop (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Policing Pop (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Series: Sound Matters
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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. Author note: Martin Cloonan teaches Popular
Music Culture at the University of Glasgow and is the author of
Banned! Censorship of Popular Music in Britain, 1967-1992. Reebee
Garofalo is Professor at the College of Public and Community
Service and is affiliated with the American Studies Program at the
University of Massachusetts, Boston; his most recent book is
Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA.
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