nikko18 Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 I have a ten page essay I am working on about censorship of rock music during the 50s through 80s. I am currently in the research stage and I need to get info from many different sources and I was thinking I would ask you guys as primary sources (the people who where alive during those time anyways). So how has censorship of music affected you guys over the years? What do you know about music censorship? And also what other stuff do you know that could help me? Thanks Nikko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callen3615 Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Research the PMRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mick Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 yup PMRC and there leader Tipper Gore she will tell whats moral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikko18 Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 i already am working on researching the pmrc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruznolfart Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 See what you can find re: race music or race records. The 40's - 60's censorship applied by the white-owned major media against artists of color is a lot more compelling than the silliness about things like "I'm a midnight toker", etc. or the later out-and-out profanity "bans" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homz Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 I remember well the growing intrusion of many fundamentalist churches from late in the 70's to mid 80's. Of coarse this isn't state sponsored censorship, but it is or rather was an attempt by many religious folk to enact censorship. It was comic relief at it's best to watch them turn records backwards and listen for backward masked messages from Satan. This was the era of backward masking. It might make the report interesting. Hey when you finish either post it here or e mail me with it. I love that kind of reading. Also the lovely and talented Wicked 1 would probably check your grammar, she does have the gift of scholarly brilliance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Research Jim Morison live shows with the Doors... He was arrested for indecent exposure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 I remember well the growing intrusion of many fundamentalist churches from late in the 70's to mid 80's. Of coarse this isn't state sponsored censorship' date=' but it is or rather was an attempt by many religious folk to enact censorship. It was comic relief at it's best to watch them turn records backwards and listen for backward masked messages from Satan. This was the era of backward masking. It might make the report interesting. Hey when you finish either post it here or e mail me with it. I love that kind of reading. Also the lovely and talented Wicked 1 would probably check your grammar, she does have the gift of scholarly brilliance. [/quote'] Yeah after my family moved from Chicago to Alabama I remember a church coming to our school to show us that rock groups were putting backward messages in the songs. Honestly, the only one I remember that was intentional was something by Black Oak Arkansas and I think it was a live song. It really didn't make a difference to me. I never felt it was intruding on me as I was glad to get out of english class that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 You might want to do some research into the phenomenon of interest in a work of art or music increasing when an "authority" attempts to have it censored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikko18 Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 thanks for all the help guys. alot of the stuff you have mentioned i hadn't even thought of. this will definately be helpfull in my research. oh and homz i will pm the paper to you (and anyone else interested), because i doubt many people would want a thread that starts with a 4000 word essay and then say "discuss". haha X] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemoon Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Check out all the controversy with the Scorpions "Virgin Killer" album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Im going with he is gona forget to bring it in or he will run out of paper/ink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyH Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 The quality of the music was better then. The decrease in censorship correlates closely to the decrease in music quality. Of course that's not likely a cause and effect thing, but that's the way it worked out. Strictly speaking, the censorship was minimal. The music industry was self censoring because profanity would limit their distribution. Censorship was typically only a television and radio formality, where people actually employed as censors existed. Interestingly, it was OK to have television shows that made light of alcohol abuse, and were so violent that several people per half hour melodrama were depicted as dying violent deaths, but saying "hell" was strictly prohibited. One of my favorite anecdotes on censorship comes from Carol Burnett, the comedian. They tried to do a nudist joke on her TV show but it kept getting censored. They finally came up with one that was allowed: Q: How do nudists dance? A: Cheek to cheek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmonicchaos Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 hey nikko I wouldn't mind getting a copy. I wrote a thread on this a couple months ago. I definitely have some opinions on censorship (see sig) and I wouldn't mind getting to read a fellow teenager's paper on the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Ok...nikko send me a copy to...i know a website that checks for plagrism for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I think you should post it and let us give you a grade.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 May be of some interest to you... http://freemuse.synkron.com/graphics/Publications/PDF/fischer28012003.pdf http://www.ericnuzum.com/banned/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Check out the Eric Clapton album with the naked little girl holding the airplane. Also look into Frank Zappa's Testimony and any interviews before congress regarding censorship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Check out the Eric Clapton album with the naked little girl holding the airplane.... Blind Faith is the group and the album name, great album and group. That wasn't censorship of music, but rather censorship of what was considered "child pornography" at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruznolfart Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Check out the Eric Clapton album with the naked little girl holding the airplane.Also look into Frank Zappa's Testimony and any interviews before congress regarding censorship. Oooh, yeah. And Dee Snider, Twisted Sister. His fan-club testimony was hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 How about only showing Elvis from the waist up so girls couldn't see his hips wiggling around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitfidl Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 The censorship was to make parents feel good since everybody knew both sets of lyrics and did not care anyway. One version might say "wearing those dresses -- the sun come shining through" and the other says "wearing those dresses, your hair drawn up so nice" so what difference does that make? Everybody was focused on getting some regardless of how-when-where and the songs did not have much to do with it. Cars, beer and drive in's worked better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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