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Policing Pop
Martin Cloonan
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Description for Policing Pop
Paperback. Looks into the many ways in which popular music and artists around the world are subjected to censorship. Series: Sound Matters. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 b&w illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 16. Weight in Grams: 535.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Sound Matters
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566399906
SKU
V9781566399906
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99-50
About Martin Cloonan
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Policing Pop
"Policing Pop not only provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which pop has been censored and restricted, it also makes an eloquent argument for the political and social importance of popular music. This book serves as a rich reminder of how songs can make the powerful nervous and the powerless bold."-John Street, University of East Anglia "Music censorship! ... Read more