Tyranny and Music
By (Author) Joseph E. Morgan
Edited by Gregory N. Reish
Contributions by Beau Bothwell
Contributions by Daniel Guberman
Contributions by Mei Han
Contributions by Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis
Contributions by Thomas Kernan
Contributions by Jessica Loranger
Contributions by Max Noubel
Contributions by Anna Oldfield
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Lexington Books
26th December 2017
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Political control and freedoms
306.4842
Hardback
282
Width 158mm, Height 239mm, Spine 23mm
612g
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 Chosans 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 Ullmans song setting at Terezn, 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 Amrs Heavy Metal resistance to the Muslim Brotherhood to Hanns Eislers battle with the United States House on Un-American Activities Committee, stories of human struggle and perseverance arise from each of these narratives.
Joseph E. Morgan is assistant professor of musicology at Middle Tennessee State University. Gregory Reish is director of the Center for Popular Music and professor of music history at Middle Tennessee State University