Repression Part 1 2015

1. REPRESSION
Part 1

2. Definition
verb (used with object)
• 1. to keep under control, check, or suppress
(desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• 2. to keep down or suppress (anything
objectionable).
• 3. to put down or quell (sedition, disorder, etc.).
• 4. to reduce (persons) to subjection.
• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/repress (accessed 28.09.14)

3. Question:
•How has censorship
affected music makers?

4. Why censor music?
• What power does music have in this society?
• Any examples?

5. How music can be censored
• Banned songs
• Prohibited performances
• Limited influences
• Controlled sources of information
• Prescribed sound

6. Task 1
• What expectations do your friends/family
have of you? Talk to your neighbour.
• Career/education/behaviour/fashion/languag
e/religion/lifestyle/money/relationships

7. Task 1
• What expectations do your friends/family
have of you? Talk to your neighbour.
• Career/education/behaviour/fashion/languag
e/religion/lifestyle/money/relationships
• How are you censored?

8. Case Study
Pussy Riot
In pairs research online the answers to these
questions:
1. Who are Pussy Riot?
2. What do they stand for?
3. Why were they in the news?
4. What is the hegemony that they are fighting?

9. Two types of common censorship
• Public – from government or other powerful
institutions
• Personal – from the values you have (but
where did these values come from?)

10. Always bad?
• Is censorship ever good?

11. Always bad?
• Is censorship ever good?
• What is the Stop Murder Music campaign?

12. Always bad?
• Is censorship ever good?
• What is the Stop Murder Music campaign?
• Go to www.freemuse.org

13. Final thought
• Should music ever be censored?