Eric Nuzum ’Singing in the Echo Chamber’ Music censorship in the U.S. after September 11 Freemuse, Copenhagen, 2005 ISSN 1601-2127 |
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Report supplement: |
![]() Professor Rebee Garofalo (left) & Associate Professor Mark Levine. |
Commentary: One of Nashville’s leading music executives, Bob Titley, discusses corporate censorship and self censorship in the US. |
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Errata Since publication, the following errors have been identified in the printed version of the report. We regret their inclusion and have corrected them in the pdf version of the report (which can be downloaded from the link above). We will also correct them in any future editions of Singing in the Echo Chamber.
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