‘Censorship’ has become a fashionable topic, not only  because of newly available archival material from Eastern Europe and  the former Soviet Union, but also because the ‘new censorship’  (inspired by the works of Foucault and Bourdieu) has widened the very  concept of censorhip beyond its conventional boundaries. This volume  uses these new materials and perspectives to address the relationship  of censorship to cultural selection processes (such as canon  formation), economic forces, social exclusion, professional  marginalization, silencing through specialized discourses,  communicative norms, and other forms of control and regulation.    Two articles in this collection investigate these issue theoretically. The remaining eight contributions address the issues by investigating censorial practice across time and space by looking at the closure of Paul’s playhouse in 1606; the legacy of 19th century American regulations and representation of women teachers; the relationship between official and samizdat publishing in Communist Poland; the ban on Gegenwartsfilme (films about contemporary society) in East Germany in 1965/66; the censorhip of modernist music in Weimar and Nazi Germany; the GDR’s censorship of jazz and avantgarde music in the early 1950s; Aesopian strategies of textual resistance in the pop music of apartheid South Africa and in the stories of Mario Benedetti.

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