BIBLIOGRAPHY
Music and censorship – recommended reading
Last update 22 August 2007 |
If you are a researcher, a journalist or a student, we hope you will find valuable or useful background information here.
Please note that only a couple of the books listed below are about 'music censorship' as such. In most cases, music censorship and its effects is not the only issue of the publications. |
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Averill, Gage
A Day for the Hunter. A Day for the Prey.
The Univ. Of Chicago Press, 1997, ISBN 0-226-03292-2 (pbk) |
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Baily, John
"Can you stop the birds singing?" The censorship of music in Afghanistan.
Freemuse, Copenhagen 2001, ISSN 1601-2127
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Bennett, Tony; Turner, Graeme;
Shepherd, John; Al, Et (ed)
Rock and Popular Music: Politics, Policies, Institutions
Routledge, 1993, ISBN: 0415063698 |
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Blecha, Peter
Taboo Tunes: A History of Banned Bands & Censored Songs
Backbeat Books, 2004, ISBN: 0879307927
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Breen, Marcus
Rock Dogs : Politics and the Australian Music Industry
Pluto Press, 2001, ISBN 1864030844 |
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Bremberger, Bernard
Musikzensur, Eine Annäherung an die grenzen des eralubten in der Musik.
Verlag Schmengler, Berlin,1990, ISBN 3-9801643-2-2 |
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Brown, Steven & Volgsten, Ulrik
Music and Manipulation
On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music
Berghahn Books, 2006, ISBN 1-84545-098-1 |
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Cartwright, Garth
"A Little Bit Special" - Censorship and the Gypsy Musicians of Romania.
Freemuse, Copenhagen, October 2001, ISSN 1601-2127
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Chapple, Steve & Garofalo, Rebee
Rock´n Roll is Here to Pay.
Nelson-Hall. Chicago, 1977, ISBN 0-88229-437-7 (pbk) |
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Cloonan, Martin
Banned! Censorship of Popular Music in Britain: 1967-92.
Arena, Ashgate Publ. ltd. 1996, ISBN 1 85742 300 3 (pbk) |
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Cloonan, Martin and Garofalo, Rebee (ed)
Policing POP
Temple Univ Press 2003, ISBN 1-56639-989-0
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Cloonan, Martin and Street, John
Politics and Popular Music - From Policing to Packaging
Parliamentary Affairs 50:2, pp 223 - 234, 1997 |
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Cloonan, Martin
Popular Music and Censorship in Britain: An overwiew.
Popular Music and Society, 19:3, pp 75-104. 1995 |
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Coplan, David B
In Township Tonight! South Africas Black City Music and Theatre.
Longman, London, 1985, ISBN 0-582-64401-3 (pbk) |
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Danielou, Alain
The Situation of Music and Musicians in Countries of the Orient.
Leo S. Olschki, Florence 1971, IMC |
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Davidson, Sandra & Winfield, Betty Houchin (ed)
Bleep!: Censoring Rock and Rap Music.
Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, No 68, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999, ISBN: 0313307059 |
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Eyre, Banning
Playing with Fire: Fear and Self-Censorship in Zimbabwean Music.
Freemuse, Copenhagen, October 2001, ISSN 1601-2127
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Frith, S
Sound Effects.
Constable, 1983 |
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Gaar, Gillian G
She´s A Rebel. the History of Women in Rock & Roll.
Seal Press, Seattle, Washington,1992, ISBN 1-878067-08-7 |
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Garofalo, Rebee
How autonomous is relative?
Popular Music, 6:1, pp.77-92.
Edward Arnold, London, 1992 |
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Grandin, Ingemar
Music and media in local life. Music practice in a Newar neighbourhood in Nepal.
Linköping University, Sweden, 1989, ISBN 91-7870-480-4 |
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The new GROVE
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 19,
edited by Stanley Sadie
London. |
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Hakobian, Levon and Kantat HB
Music in the Soviet age 1917-1987.
Melos Music Literature, Sweden, 1998, ISBN 91 972133 4 9 |
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Dietrich Helms, Thomas Phleps (Hg.)
9/11 – The world's all out of tune
Populäre Musik nach dem 11. September 2001
Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung 32, hg. von Dietrich Helms und Thomas Phleps
Oktober 2004, 212 S., kart., 19,80 €
ISBN: 3-89942-256-2 |
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Heylin, Clinton, (ed)
The penguin Book of Rock & Roll Writing.
Penguin Books 1992, ISBN 0 14 01.6836 2 |
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Hill, Trent
The Enemy within: Censorship of rock music in the 1950s.
in Anthony DeCurtis (ed.): Present Tense, pp. 39 - 72.
Duke University Press, 1992 |
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Horner, B and Swiss, T
Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture
Blackwell Publishers,1999, ISBN: 0631212639 |
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Kagie, Rudie
De Verboden Saxofoon.
Over Muziek & Censuur
De Prom, Amsterdam 2000, ISBN 90 6801 653 9 |
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Kitwana, Bakari
The rap on gangsta rap.
Thirld World Press, Chicago. 1994, ISBN 0-88378-175-1 |
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Klein, Naomi
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies.
Picador, USA, 2000, ISBN 0312271921 |
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Korpe, Marie (ed.)
1st World Conference on Music & Censorship.
Speeches from the conference
Freemuse, Copenhagen, 2001, ISBN 87-988163-0-6
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Korpe, Marie (ed.)
"MUSIC WILL NOT BE SILENCED" 3rd Freemuse World Conference on Music & Censorship Istanbul 25-26 November 2006.
Speeches from the conference. Includes CD-ROM with video interviews and music.
Freemuse, Copenhagen, 2007, ISSN 1601-2127
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Korpe, Marie (ed.)
Shoot the Singer! Music Censorship Today
Zed Books, London, 2004,
HbISBN 1 84277 504 9
PbISBN 1 84277 505 7
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Lippman, Edward A
Musical Thought in Ancient Greece.
Columbia Univ. press 1964. ISBN 64.22482 |
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Manuel, Peter
Popular Musics of the Non-Western World.
Oxford Univ. Press, N.Y. 1988, ISBN 0-19-515342-7 |
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Matoub, Lounes
Rebelle.
Editions Stock. France, 1995. ISBN ? 54-4440.1 |
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Negus, Keith
Popular Music in Theory
Wesleyan Univ Pr; 1997. ISBN: 0819563102 |
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Norris, Christopher (ed)
Music and the Politics of Culture.
Lawrence & Wishart, London 1989. ISBN 0 85315 700 6 |
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Nuzum, Eric D.
’Singing in the Echo Chamber’
Music censorship in the U.S. after September 11
Freemuse, Copenhagen, 2005, ISSN 1601-2127
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Nuzum, Eric D.
Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America.
Quill, 2001, ISBN 0688167721 |
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Oakley, Giles
The Devil´s Music, A History of the Blues.
BBC, 1976, ISBN 0 563 16012 8 |
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Orman, John
The Politics of Rock Music.
Nelson-Hall, Chicago 1984, ISBN 0-8304-1025-2 |
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Owen, Ursula (ed)
The Book of Banned Music.
Special issue of INDEX on CENSORSHIP, 6/1998:
Writers and Scholars International Ltd., London 1998, ISSN 0306-4220 |
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Perris, Arnold
Music as Propaganda, Art to persuade, Art to Control.
Greeenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1985, ISBN 0-313-24505-3 |
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Pieper, Werner (ed)
1000 Jahre Musik & Zensur in den diversen Deutchlands.
Der Grüne Zweig 206, Löhrbach 2001, ISBN 3-922708-09-9
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Pieper, Werner (ed)
Verfemt - Verbannt - Verboten
Musik und Zensur. Weltweit.
(German version of Index on Censorship 6th 1998)
Der Grüne Zweig 206, Löhrbach 1999, ISBN 3-922708-00-5 |
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Peterson, R.A
Market and moralist censors of a black art form: jazz.
In S.Denisoff and R.Peterson (eds.): The Sounds of Social Change, pp.236-247.
McNally, Chicago,1972 |
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Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt
Suifi music of India and Pakistan.
Cambridge University press 1986, ISBN 0 521 26767 6 |
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Reese, Gustave
Music in the Middel Ages.
W.W.Norton & Company, New York 1940 |
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Schade Poulsen, Marc
The Social Significance of Raî. Men and Popular Music in Algeria.
University of Texas press, Austin, Texas, 1999, ISBN 0-292-77740-x (pbk) |
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Schwarz, Boris
Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia 1917-1970.
Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1972, ISBN 0.214.65264.5 |
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Seim, Roland; Spiegel, Josef (ed.)
Nur für Erwachsene – Rock- und Popmusik: zensiert, diskutiert, unterschlagen
Münster 2004, 246 pages, coloured book covers, circa 250 colour pictures, format 24x19cm
ISBN 3-933060-16-8
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Servant, Jean-Christophe
« Which way Nigeria ? »
Charia, argent, morale et autocensure : menaces sur la musique.
Français
Freemuse, Copenhagen, April 2003
ISSN 1601-2127
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Servant, Jean-Christophe
"Which way Nigeria?" Music under Threat: A Question of Money, Morallity, Self-censcorship and the Sharia.
English
Freemuse, Copenhagen, April 2003
ISSN 1601-2127
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Siegmund, Heidi
The Ice Opinion. ICE T as told to H- Siegmund.
St. Martin´s Press, New York, 1994, ISBN 0-312-10486-3 |
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Street, J
Rebel Rock.
Blackwell, Oxford, 1986 |
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Tsenova, Valeria, editor
Underground Music from the Former USSR.
Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997, ISBN3-7186-5821-6 (pbk) |
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Valkov, Solomon
Vidnesbyrd, Dmitrij Sjostakovitj´s Erindringer.
Forlaget Komma, ISBN 87-7512-065-8 (hft) 1980 Original: Testimony, The memoirs of D. Shostakovich
Harper & Row Publishers, 1979 |
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Waterman, Christopher Alan
JUJU. A Social history and Ethnography of an African Popular Music.
The Univ. Of Chicago press, 1990 ISBN 0-226-87465-6 (pbk) |
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Wellesz, Egon
Ancient and oriental Music.
Oxford University Press. New York 1957. ISBN 0-19-316301-2 |
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Winfield, Betty Houchum and Davidson, Sandra (ed)
Bleep! Censoring Rock and Rap Music
Greenwood Press, Westport, 1999, ISBN 0-313-30705-9 |
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Wilson, Elizabeth
Shostakovich, A Life Remembered.
Faber and Faber Ltd, 1994 ISBN 0-571-15393-3 |
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If you find that we have missed anything, please let us know! We update this bibliography on a regular basis. |
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| Read more: |
| Postscript to report on censorship in Zimbabwe |
| "Playing with Fire: Fear and Self-Censorship in Zimbabwean Music". Extensive Freemuse report, including case studies on Thomas Mapfumo and Oliver Mtukudzi. Read abstract and full report (PDF) |
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| Roskilde Festival 2003, Damon Albarn on music censorship |
| Damon Albarn, Tony Allen and Ty on self-censorship, corporate censorship, censorship in Africa, and music during wartime - video excerpts from the Freemuse organized press conference on freedom of musical expression, Roskilde Festival 2003 |
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| Freemuse report on music censorship in Zimbabwe |
| "Playing with Fire: Fear and Self-Censorship in Zimbabwean Music". Extensive Freemuse report, including case studies on Thomas Mapfumo and Oliver Mtukudzi. Read abstract and full report (PDF) |
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| Baktash Kamran |
| Video interview with the lead singer in Kamran Music Group. He speaks about his experiences with music prohibition during the Taliban period in 1996-2001 |
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| Video interview with one of the singers who were forced to sing praisal songs for the Taliban regime. He speaks about his problems with music censorship in this period |
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| USA: 'Crash into me, baby!' |
| America’s implicit music censorship since September 11. Read the chapter from 'Shoot the Singer!', by Eric Nuzum on how the September 11 terror attacks have affected freedom of musical expression |
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