Tyranny and music

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Content: Introduction1.Resisting Tyranny with Song: Hanns Eisler's "Nightmare"James Parsons2.Memory as Resistance: Viktor Ullmann's Terezin Settings of Friedrich HoelderlinBrent Wetters 3."The Desert Ain't Vietnam": Collective Memory in Persian Gulf War SongsJessica Loranger 4.Anti-Inquisition Propaganda at the Outbreak of the Dutch Revolt: Noe Faignient's Chansons, madrigals et motetz Sienna M. Wood5.Scriptural Exegesis in the Music of William Billings: The Politics of the AnthemMolly Williams6.Vilification or Problematization? John Wilkes Booth in Popular Songs and MusicalsThomas J. Kernan 7. "I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-Tung" an Analysis of the Representation of Tyranny in John Adam's Nixon in China (Act II, Scene 2)Max Noubel8.Battling the Typhoon - Weathering Political Storms in Maoist ChinaMei Han9.Memories Don't Burn: Soviet Censorship and the Turkic BardAnna Oldfield 10.Minhibbuk ya Batta - Musical References to Bashar al-Asad on Syrian Radio during the Civil WarBeau Bothwell 11.Heavy Metal as Global ResistanceDaniel Guberman12."You Can Take Our Diamonds, But You Can Never Take Our Spirit": Chosan's Analysis of Blood Diamonds and the Sierra Leonean Civil War"Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis 13.Popular Music and the Impending Tyranny of Donald Trump Joseph E. Morgan