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T1 Rethinking Popular Music Censorship: Jazz in European Dictatorships (1925-1948)
A1 Iglesias, Iván
AB Popular music prohibition and silencing had received little academic attentionuntil three decades ago, coinciding with a change of paradigm in studies aboutcensorship. This chapter evaluates this New Censorship Theory, now dominant inpopular music studies, and applies it to jazz in European dictatorships of the second quarterof the 20th century, assessing its strengths and shortcomings. It aims to go beyond currentmodels of studying popular music censorship in autocratic regimes, focused on legality andofficial banning, and the too inclusive conception of New Censorship Theory, which cantrivialize state violence. I propose an ethnographic approach to popular music censorshipthat conceives it as the effect of complex assemblages linked to the states but not restrictedto their apparatuses, and as a process of contingent effects that did not always leave tracesin the official archives. Ultimately, I seek to frame popular music censorship in the transnational history of Europe from 1925, when totalitarian regimes began to be interested in jazz, to the start of the Cold War.
PB Brepols
SN 978-2-503-61846-3
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/82217
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/82217
LA eng
NO Garratt, James (ed.). Music and the Politics of Censorship: From the Fascist Era to the Digital Era. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025, pp. 213-236.
DS UVaDOC
RD 25-feb-2026