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Controversial Music. ... Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding
our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? ...
Controversial Music. ... Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding
our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? ...
Controversial Music. ... Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding
our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? ...
Controversial Music. ... Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding
our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? ...
Controversial Music. ... Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding
our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? ...
Submitted by chris_pidd4 on January 11, 2006
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Controversial Music
Music Censorship
Albums with explicit lyrics or content started having black and white parental advisories on them in 1994 (http://www.riaa.org/Parents-Advisory-4.cfm). Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? Is censorship necessary to protect the youth of our nation. Generally, younger people are against censorship on this issue. Music is an outlet and even an anti-drug for many teens -- however, parents and society feel differently. Should parents censor their children or society, many parents would like to raise their own children. 'Censorship, like charity should begin at home -- but unlike charity, it should end there,' is a quote by Clare Boothe Luce (Fitzhenry, 84). Many believe that the 'explicit' lyrics and content in this controversial music like Eminem will turn their children to crime and drugs. Music censorship started in the United States in the late fifties and continues till today. Will it ever go too far or stop?
Society causes a lot of music censorship. Starting in the late fifties and early sixties members of society made efforts to censor R and B music (http://teenmusic.about.com/library/weekly/aa022301a.htm). They were concerned that the music endorsed wild living, promiscuous sex, and lewd dancing (http://teenmusic.about.com/library/weekly/aa022301a.htm). 'During the late sixties and seventies, Jim Morrison's dark and suggestive lyrics stirred up communities, and parents were appalled to see Elvis Presley's hip-thrusting' (http://teenmusic.about.com/library/weekly/aa022301a.htm). Society censors music like this because they are afraid of it. They think it will alter the minds of their children and cause them to do things they would have never done if it were never suggested in a song's lyrics. 'Music mirrors the society that creates it' (http://teenmusic.about.com/library/weekly/aa022301a.htm). Some people believe...
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