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Angela McShane

Patterns of Repression: Silencing the Protest Song 1600-2020

Monday 2 February, 11am-12pm, B2.02 (Science Concourse)

Censorship is not just a praxis contingent upon a single work of art; it is also about the political processes and principles that are invoked in the business of regulation. While the personal and political issues at stake for protest singers and authorities changed radically from the outset of Britain鈥檚 popular music industry to the present day, this lecture shows how the processes and principles that underlie the shifting regulatory and legislative frameworks provided by successive governments seeking to control protesting and oppositional voices in the popular music trade have effectively remained the same.