Repression Part 1

1. REPRESSION
Part 1

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

3. Some examples of music

4. Some examples of music

5. 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)

6. Relationship to Music
Music for repression Music being repressed

7. Relationship to Music
Music for repression Music being repressed
Torture
Exert cultural norms
Effect behaviour
Politics
Religion
Sex
Gender
Drugs

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

9. • Banned songs
• Prohibited performances
• Limited influences
• Controlled sources of information
• Prescribed sound

10. Task 1
• Individually and anonymously, write down on
the sheet of paper in front of you a time when
you have felt you have been repressed by
something or someone.

11. 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?

12. Always bad?
• Is censorship ever good?

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

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

15. Final thought
• Should music ever be censored?