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Supreme Court Ruled U S Senate
5,404 wordsWhile the censorship of art is not a new phenomenon, recent years have witnessed renewed and intensified attempts to control popular culture. In particular, rap and rock music have come under increasing attack from various sides representing the entire left and right political spectrum, purportedly for their explicit sexual and violent lyrical contents. In this paper is investigated which moral codes underlie these claims against popular music, how social movements mobilize actions around these ...
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Snoop Doggy Dogg Gangster Rap
3,673 wordsWhen you listen to a rap song, what are you listing to? You are listening to words that kids shouldnt listen to. All you hear are explicit lyrics. This kind of music is being sold to young children without any thought or concern. When many children listen to this kind of music they think that was being said in the songs is not wrong or against the law. The lyrics in many songs contain violent and explicit lyrics that usually talk about killing someone along with sounds of gunshots in the backgro...
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John Stuart Mill Parents Music Resource
5,071 wordsOur society today largely views censorship as a method that has disappeared from liberal cultures since the enlightenment with the exception of restrictions in time of war. The enlightenment served to cripple the intolerance of incisive religious and government leaders, but did not obliterate censorship altogether. Instead, the job of expurgating unacceptable ideas has simply fallen into new hands using new tactics. Censors now assume the guise of capitalist retailers and distributors, special-i...
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Tipper Gore Juvenile Delinquency
5,065 words... g. The Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography stated: ... efforts to restrict or censor have the psychological effect of increasing the desirability of the material. Increasing the difficulty of obtaining erotic materials, harassing and punishing pornographers and purveyors of pornography, setting minimum age limits for the purchase of these materials, and so on, may have the unwanted effect of increasing interest in the materials, rendering them more desirable, and ...
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The History Of Censorship In Literature And Music
1,950 wordsWhat is censorship? An encyclopedia defines censorship as "the control of what people may say or hear, write or read, or see or do 1. " There are many reasons why people censor entertainment such as literature and music. Many governments or groups try to preserve their standards of morality by preventing people from learning about or following other standards 2, commonly found in the two previously mentioned mediums. There are different ways to censor things. It can be on a local level, such as ...
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Analysis And Context Of Bob Marley Lyrics
1,796 wordsA lifetime of inspiration and struggle is depicted through a poster I acquired not to long ago. The portrait is Bob Marley. The image is freedom. This sense of freedom can be, and is, achieved through his music, powered by his music, and inspired by his music as it relates to the social injustices in early white imperialism. An illusion of the creation of a human life is being meshed together in this distinct piece of work. It is a portrait of an artist fighting solely for freedom using the powe...
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Snoop Doggy Dogg Wall Street Journal
4,219 wordsStacey Hawkins English 2 sec. 34 11 - 21 - 96 Gangsta Rap and Violence Go Hand in Hand Mr. Officer, I want to see you latin in a coffin, sir, from The Chronic and F the police, from N. W. A. , are few lyrics from the music genre gangsta rap. This kind of music is being sold to young children without any thought of concern. When many children listen to this kind of music they think that was being said in the songs is not wrong or against the law. The lyrics in many songs contain violent and expli...
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Hip Hop Culture Gangsta Rap
5,376 wordsTHE EVOLUTION OF RAP MUSIC Rap is a form of urban music, which emerged from the? hip-hop? movement of the South Bronx, New York, in the early 1970? s. The hip-hop culture was comprised of the popular street activities of African-American youth during the 1970? s such as: styles of language, ? street-slang? colloquialisms, graffiti, break dancing, music and their colourful attitude and fashion. Rap music is therefor a subculture to the hip-hop movement, or what many describe as? the soundtrack to...
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Martin Luther King L A Times
3,042 wordsValues and Censorship Stacey Hawkins Values and Ethics 2 - 11 - 99 Censorship In the Media and In Music Censorship is not always protected by the first amendment. Obscenity is just one of the action not protected by the first amendment. There are limitations on the right of free speech. ? The word? censorship? means prior restraint of First Amendment rights by government. ? (Enforcement) Some say that there are some things that people should not know about situations that are going on in the wor...
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Dave Matthews Band Carpe Diem
3,791 wordsImagine standing on a stage, overlooking 69 tiered rows in what is possibly the most beautiful amphitheater in the world. As Dave Matthews and his fellow band mates walk on stage, the crowd cheers wildly. They do this throughout the opening song, Seek Up, and, for the most part, through the whole show. Recorded on August 15, 1995, this was at the height of the bands musical talent and at the bottom step of their climb to fame. It was shows like this that left fans mesmerized by the funky, jazz-i...
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Hip Hop Culture Hip Hop Music
3,134 wordsRoughly fifteen years ago, the initial rumblings of rap music were emanating from the streets of New York City. Rap music is very much a product of its urbanized, literacy-based environment, as can be seen in the advanced technology necessary to produce the music. Although the connection between rap music and its modern roots is impossible to ignore, raps dependence upon high technology is often over-emphasized, eclipsing any opportunity to connect rap culture to a time before the world of turnt...
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Special Interest Groups John Stuart Mill
9,500 words. INHEAD . AD Music and Censorship Victor Lombardi December 1991 Second Reader: Alan Stuart Instructor: Richard Hixon Introduction Our society today largely views censorship as a method that has disappeared from liberal cultures since the enlightenment with the exception of restrictions in time of war. The enlightenment served to cripple the intolerance of incisive religious and government leaders, but did not obliterate censorship altogether. Instead, the job of expurgating unacceptable ideas h...
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Lonely Hearts Upper Lip
4,301 wordsPAUL McCARTNEY, SIX FEET UNDER? I read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade blew his mind out in a car. He didnt notice that the lights had changed. (the Beatles, 1967) These lyrics proved to fans that Paul McCartney had indeed died in a tragic auto accident in late 1966. Some people were skeptical about the explanation, but upon investigating the album covers and the lyrics of the Beatles songs, the story seems to make sense. Some of the lyrics have to be a twisted in or...
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Listen To Music Form Of Entertainment
1,583 wordsStanley Crouch's essay Hooked is about the music of today. He talks throughout the essay mainly about Michael Jackson, and his music and image. He talks about Jackson throughout the years, from the beginning of his career as a member of the Jackson Five, up until the release of his latest record HIStory. Crouch goes on to say in his essay that todays music is mainly about going against authority, and can be compared to Hitlers Fascism. He also talks about how many people today listen to music, w...
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