Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Rod Stasick <>]

Hallo,

I'm a bit confused about what the conundrum actually is here.

For iTunes: they use what used to be called CDDB
and is now "Gracenote" to "accept" titles. Maybe it is 
your local divisions of Gracenote (in Berlin and München)
that may have some issues with the word "holocaust"
because of the current (ridiculous, I think) censorship laws
in Germany.

As for Amazon, I'm puzzled by this because if you go to 
Amazon.de, it is not difficult to find this Cage piece mentioned.
Maybe it is a new restriction put in place by Amazon.de?

Let us know what you find out.

Rod


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On Feb 11, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Tim Ovens wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am just uploading several of my Cage-Piano Music recordings to iTunes, 
> amazon, and all these others.
> 
> Now I got a message: it is is not allowed to use the title "In the Name of 
> the Holocaust" any longer. Of course no discussion is possible. In 1942 the 
> titel did not have the tragic meaning, which it got shortly later. It is 
> the word play for "In the name of the Holy Ghost" in James Joyce's 
> Finnegans Wake. But all this does not interest anyone.
> Bad words - not allowed...
> 
> Does the world become better by prohibiting words?
> 
> I am a German. We did burn books in 1933 to "protect" our population, to 
> make the world better. The government decided, which words are good and 
> which aren't.
> 
> ????
> 
> Tim