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Approaching the topic from several subdisciplinary points of view within music studies, this edited collection addresses the role that music plays in opposing tyranny or solidifying tyrannical power around the world.
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Introduction
1.Resisting Tyranny with Song: Hanns Eisler's "Nightmare"
James Parsons
2.Memory as Resistance: Viktor Ullmann's Terezin Settings of Friedrich Hölderlin
Brent Wetters
3."The Desert Ain't Vietnam": Collective Memory in Persian Gulf War Songs
Jessica Loranger
4.Anti-Inquisition Propaganda at the Outbreak of the Dutch Revolt: Noé Faignient's Chansons, madrigals et motetz
Sienna M. Wood
5.Scriptural Exegesis in the Music of William Billings: The Politics of the Anthem
Molly Williams
6.Vilification or Problematization? John Wilkes Booth in Popular Songs and Musicals
Thomas J. Kernan
7. "I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-Tung" an Analysis of the Representation of Tyranny in John Adam's Nixon in China (Act II, Scene 2)
Max Noubel
8.Battling the Typhoon - Weathering Political Storms in Maoist China
Mei Han
9.Memories Don't Burn: Soviet Censorship and the Turkic Bard
Anna Oldfield
10.Minhibbuk ya Batta - Musical References to Bashar al-Asad on Syrian Radio during the Civil War
Beau Bothwell
11.Heavy Metal as Global Resistance
Daniel Guberman
12."You Can Take Our Diamonds, But You Can Never Take Our Spirit": Chosan's Analysis of Blood Diamonds and the Sierra Leonean Civil War"
Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis
13.Popular Music and the Impending Tyranny of Donald Trump
Joseph E. Morgan
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Edited by Joseph E. Morgan and Gregory N. Reish - Contributions by Beau Bothwell; Daniel Guberman; Mei Han; Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis; Thomas Kernan; Jessica Loranger; Max Noubel; Anna Oldfield; James Parsons; Brent Wetters; Molly Williams and Sienna M. Woo
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Approaching the topic from several subdisciplinary points of view within music studies, this edited collection addresses the role that music plays in opposing tyranny or solidifying tyrannical power around the world.
