Shoot the singer! : music censorship today / edited by Marie Korpe.

What is music censorship? :towards a better understanding of the term / Martin Cloonan -- Music : a parallel stucture of power / Alenka Barber-Kersovan --Music as a useless activity : conservative interpretations of music in Islam / Jonas Otterbeck --. Singing in a theocracy :female musicians in Iran / Ameneh Yussufzadeh -- Breaking the silence : censorship in Afghanistan past and present / John Baily -- Music for the great leader : policy and practice in North Korea / Keith Howard -- Burma : music under siege / Aung Zaw -- Stopping the music : censorship in apartheid South Africa / Roger Lucey -- Roger, me and the scorpion : working for the South African security services during apartheid / Paul Erasmus -- Encounters with a South-African censor : confrontation and reconciliation / Ole Reitov -- Remembering subversion : resisting censorship in apartheid South Africa / Michael Drewett -- Playing with fire : manipulation of music and musicians in Zimbabwe / Banning Eyre -- Guerilla pop : Matoub Lounes and the struggle for Berber identity in Algeria / Andy Morgan -- Defending freedom : blasphemy trials and censorship in Lebanon / Marcel Khalife -- Songs of freedom: Cultural resistance in Palestine / Rania Elias -- The sound of silence : conformist musicians in Israel / Noam Ben-Zeev -- Crash into me, baby : America's implicit music censorship since September 11th / Eric Nuzum -- Havana and Miami: a music censorship sandwich / Eric Silva Brenneman -- Mexico : drug ballads and censorship today / Elijah Wald -- Responses to censorship in the US : acquiescence, withdrawal and resistance / Ian Inglis -- Turkey : censorship past and present / Sanar Yurdatapan -- French rap / Daniel Brown