...Music Censorship. Musical lyrics have been the subject o...
A conversation last night about education in Missouri at Hickman High School often turned to discussion about how the General Assembly could double the cigarette tax and provide more money for education. Dozens of Hickman students gathered in the school's auditorium for the annual "Speak Your Mind" forum in which presenters answer questions from the audience of mostly students. This is the 20th anniversary of the forums. The first was about music censorship and held in a room at Columbia Mall.
Inner City Broadcasting has joined other black-owned radio station owners in preventing the playing of lyrics they feel incites black-on-black violence. Inner City, owner of WBLS-FM, has experienced positive community response to its action.
A few days ago, I listened to "The Steve Harvey Morning Show" as they discussed the latest issue of Ebony magazine. The new issue explores the discussion of decency, rap music, censorship and "the culture of disrespect" in the black community, as they asked the question, "Who You Callin' a...? Then we read headlines, like "Al Sharpton Leads Mardi Demanding 'Decency' in Hip-Hop Lyrics" and "Reverend Jesse Jackson Holds Hip-Hop Town Hall Meeting in Chicago." Too bad it took a white shock jock calling some African-American basketball players "nappy-headed hos" for black folk to begin to have an in-depth discussion about "decency" in our community. [C. Delores Tucker] told the whole world of the consequences of ignoring this "culture of disrespect."
The name "Clear Channel" became shorthand for everything wrong with terrestrial (non-satellite) radio: lack of diversity, repetitious music, boring programming, too many commercials, censorship, jingoism, ad nauseam. In a previous life, I was very familiar with radio, first as a record promotion man and later as a marketing executive at a trade publication for radio managers. Initially, I encountered a variety of stations, mostly independently owned or part of small chains.
... in historical episodes of music censorship from Plato to Stalin. (23) With this background, P...
On March 5, 2010, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported that producer Shuki Weiss, who has been involved in producing many of the Israeli conceits headlined by international stars in recent years, has attacked human rights activists for calling on the Pixies to cancel their June 9 concert at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds. Weiss is reported to have said that "There's no difference ... between a regime in China that silences a performance from fear of Westernization, an Islamist regime that stops a performance because of revealing dress and a political group attempting to express itself at the expense of music lovers." Weiss is responding here to the growing movement to boycott, divest from and sanction (BDS) Israel, and in particular to advocates of a cultural boycott who have reached out to the...
... models, spurred Mubarak's Egyptian Censorship Committee in 2005 to ban music videos "which featu...
DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Myanmar is known for political oppression and poverty under the rule of the world's longest-lasting military dictatorship. But a University of Dayton music professor reveals a different side of the country: a vibrant pop music industry. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/ prnh/20110103/DC23496LOGO)
... always subtle because of the threat of censorship, she said. More often, the lyrics focus on common ...
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