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Music censorship was impacted by the religious influences on governments before the modern nation-state. [13] The Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitum is an early sign of censorship, later translating into the music censorship of the 21st century. [citation needed]
The protest music of the 1950s, soon after apartheid had begun, explicitly addressed peoples' grievances over pass laws and forced relocation. Following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 and the arrest or exile of a number of leaders, songs became more downbeat, while increasing censorship forced them to use subtle and hidden meanings. [8]
General censorship occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons including national security, to control obscenity, pornography, and hate speech, to protect children or other vulnerable groups, to promote or restrict ...
The issue of trying to control music censorship dates back to the early 20th century, when the turntable allowed people to control what they were listening to rather than just what the radio gave ...
Censorship came to British America with the Mayflower "when the governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts, William Bradford learned [in 1629] [4] that Thomas Morton of Merrymount, in addition to his other misdeed, had 'composed sundry rhymes and verses, some tending to lasciviousness' the only solution was to send a military expedition to break up Morton's high-living."
The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an American committee formed in 1985 [1] with the stated goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes via labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers. The committee was founded by four women known as the ...
The Anti-Defamation League has been a frequent target of Benz’s ire in recent livestreams. “The fight for white identity would mean a battle for the soul of the internet itself,” Frame Game ...
Tipper Gore and the others argued their case in a public hearing, while artists such as Twisted Sister's Dee Snider, Frank Zappa and even folk singer John Denver called the labeling demands ...