Rebeca



// Music Censorship // // By celestial teapot // ~music censorship has been an issue for more than 100 years ~in the 40’s Hitler created laws banning Germans from listening to music from anyone that was not German or was Jewish ~in the 50’s Elvis was taped from the waist up because his hip movements were considered vulgar ~in the 60’s the music was connected to drug use ~in the 70’s punk-rock was born and angry music about rebelling and fighting the man was thought inappropriate ~music being censored because it is inappropriate is controversial because who decides what is inappropriate? ~one example of censorship is a song by My Chemical Romance that was about bullying, school shootings and violence…it came out right after a school shooting so MTV removed the words “gun”, “pay”, “murder” and others ~the author believes companies censor the music because they are trying to protect themselves from possible legal problems