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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 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 ...
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 ...
Because of censorship, access to protest music was severely limited for those who were not part of the active resistance movement against Marcos, [18] even as Filipino musicians' desire to adapt new western music genres to Filipino sensibilities gave rise to new modes of musical expression, notably Pinoy pop, Pinoy rock, Filipino folk rock ...
That is, until 1984, when a group called the Parents Music Resource Center, led by high-profile Washington, D.C., women — including Tipper Gore, the then-wife of U.S. Senator Al Gore, a Democrat ...
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 ...
Michael Benz, a former Trump state department official whose work has been cited in congressional hearings and promoted by Elon Musk, appears to have been a pseudonymous alt-right content creator.