Looks into the many ways in which popular music and artists around the world are subjected to censorship.

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Defining Issues and Themes 1. Call That Censorship? Problems of Definition Martin Cloonan 2. I Want My MP3: Who Owns Internet Music" Reebee Garofalo 3. Twenty Years of Music Censorship Around the World Vanessa Bastian and Dave Laing 4. Remote Control: Legal Censorship of the Creative Process Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn Part II: Controlling the Artistic 5. Death Metal and the Limits of Musical Expression Keith Kahn-Harris 6. Marxists in the Marketplace Mike Jones 7. Argh Fuck Kill Canadian Hardcore Goes on Trial: The Case of the Dayglo Abortions Rob Bowman 8. Strelnikoff: Censorship in Contemporary Slovenia David Parvo Part III: Up Against the State 9. Music in the Struggle to End Apartheid: South Africa Michael Drewett 10. Confusing Confucius: Rock in Contemporary China Jeroen de Kloet (Holland) 11. German Nazi Bands: Between Provocation and Repression Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Germany) 12. Popular Music and Policing in Brazil Jose Roberto Zan (Brazil) 13. Challenging Music as Expression in the US Paul D. Fischer (US) About the Contributors