Tyranny and Music

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.

Joseph E. Morgan is assistant professor of musicology at Middle Tennessee State University. Gregory Reish is director of the Center for Popular Music and professor of music history at Middle Tennessee State University

Introduction Resisting Tyranny with Song: Hanns Eisler's "Nightmare"James Parsons Memory as Resistance: Viktor Ullmann's Terezin Settings of Friedrich HölderlinBrent Wetters "The Desert Ain't Vietnam": Collective Memory in Persian Gulf War SongsJessica Loranger Anti-Inquisition Propaganda at the Outbreak of the Dutch Revolt: Noé Faignient's Chansons, madrigals et motetz Sienna M. Wood Scriptural Exegesis in the Music of William Billings: The Politics of the AnthemMolly Williams Vilification or Problematization? John Wilkes Booth in Popular Songs and MusicalsThomas J. Kernan "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 Battling the Typhoon - Weathering Political Storms in Maoist ChinaMei Han Memories Don't Burn: Soviet Censorship and the Turkic BardAnna Oldfield Minhibbuk ya Batta - Musical References to Bashar al-Asad on Syrian Radio during the Civil WarBeau Bothwell Heavy Metal as Global ResistanceDaniel Guberman "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 Popular Music and the Impending Tyranny of Donald Trump Joseph E. Morgan