by Jello Biafra, Camille Paglia, Ursula Owen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780904286687
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«Smashed Hits: The Book of Banned Music» is a compilation about music censorship, with Jello Biafra, Camille Paglia and Ursula Owen, in paperback.
The volume draws on Index on Censorship to explore songs and artists banned or censored in relation to freedom of expression. It includes texts on music persecuted by the Nazis, the role of radio and of censorship in popular culture, with contributions by Jello Biafra, Camille Paglia, Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich.
194-page volume, originally published as issue 6.1998 of the magazine Index on Censorship; texts in English.
For readers interested in censorship, freedom of expression and the social history of music.
Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic, social critic and feminist. Paglia was a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1984 until the university's closure in 2024. She is critical of many aspects of modern culture and is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and other books. She is also a critic of contemporary American feminism and of post-structuralism, as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of American culture such as its visual art, music, and film history.
