The Oxford Handbook of Music CensorshipThroughout history and across the globe, governments have taken a strong hand in censoring music. Whether in the interests of safeguarding the moral and religious values of their citizens or of promoting their own political goals, the character and severity of actions taken to suppress and control music that has been categorized as unacceptable, immoral, or as the Nazi's termed the music of Jewish and modernist composers, degenerate, ranges from