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This is in deed a scary thought and not only for the United States. Worldwide THEY decide
what YOU can hear. The measure of just how repressive or scared a state and its executive are is gaugeable by the degrees of censorship imposed.
History has shown many examples: the Entartete Musik in Nazi-Germany, the unofficial music of Russia under Stalin or the murder of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara.
Compared to those events it seems amusing to hear that in 1969 the song J T'aime by sexy moaning actress Jane Birkin and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg was banned by the BBC and as the result of it: Gainsbourg sold over a million records.
We all know that even in the world of music we can find stupidity and a lacking
appeal to the sense of taste. But where do WE draw the line? I, for sure
won't buy a record with the song title "Necropedophile". - I don't need a censor for that.
| ericnuzum.com/banned/ | A Brief History of Banned Music in the United States |
| www2.pncl.co.uk/~rocklist/banned.html | A list of records banned by the BBC. |
| industrialmusic.miningco.com | Censored Industrial Music |
| http://www.indexoncensorship.org/698/pett.html | Smashed Hits by Julian Petley, INDEX |
| www.indexoncensorship.org/698/dent.html | The devil's Disciplines by Jim D'Entremont/INDEX
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| www.xnet.com/~paigeone/noevil/future.html | Future Censors - Article about Seminar: Arts, Entertainment & Media Management, at Chicago's Columbia College.
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Book: Bleep! Censoring Rock and Rap Music
Betty Houchin Winfield and Sandra Davidson, Editors
From the Contents:
- "Let Me Count the Ways"": Censoring Rock and Rap Music by Betty Houchin Winfield
- From A Fine Romance to Good Rockin' - and Beyond: Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma by Michael J. Budds
- Because of the Children: Decades of Attempted Controls of Rock and Rap Music by Betty Houchin Winfield
- Two Perspectives on Ice-T: "Can't Touch Me": Musical Messages and Incitement Law by Sandra Davidson
- The Politics of Aesthetic Response: Cultural Conservatism, the NEA and Ice-T by David Slayden
- Stern Stuff: Here Comes the FCC by Sandra Davidson
- Music Lyrics: As Legally Censored As they Wanna Be by Jeffrey L. L. Stein
- "Let's Spend the Night Together," Uhhh, "Some Time Together,"Making Rock Acceptable: "The Ed Sullivan Show" by Stephen H. Wheeler
- Rolling Stone's Response to Attempted Censorship of Rock 'n' Roll by Lindsey R. Fore
- Deconstructing the Hip-Hop Hype: A Critical Analysis of The New York Times' Coverage of African-American Youth Culture by Patrick B. Hill
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