... speech has no boundaries. It's legal to say whatever one wants to on a record, as long as there's a sticker stating that it has "explicit content/lyrics". With Hip Hop or rap music gaining popularity there days, it has become a target group to push the limits as other musical genres have done in the past. Back in the grunge era, Nirvana exploded on ... was evident that the white population bought into it. A statistic done in 1992 stated that whites bought 75 percent of Hip Hop albums.3 There seemed to be a rising market for rap music, which was astonishingly occupied by whites, and the ...

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... deter youth to the immoral ways of society. These artists are merely expressing what they know and how they lived in a form of entertainment. Rap is their outlet for anger. However, rap is the most censored form of music on the market today. Censorship of any form does not allow the people to decide, with their own judgment, what is right and what ... obscenity has no effect on behavior, it is clearly unfair to censor music. It expresses inequality because music censorship does not allow people to be free in expressing themselves and their Wentz 6 emotions. Another factor that deals wit...

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... is that references to the song "12- by the group Insane Clown Posse were also made in a letter attributed to Eric Harris. The music of Marilyn Manson is believed partly responsible for the December 12, 1996 suicide death of Richard Kuntz a Burlington, North Dakota teenager who was listening ... on "Marilyn Manson."" Ms. Hilary Rosen, President and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America confides that "The most controversial lyrics in popular music reflect the violence and despair in an artists imagination or in society but they reflect it "they don't create it."" Elsewhere i...

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... , in California, probation officers from Orange County asked two professors at California State University to research whether there was a link between heavy metal music and juvenile crime. The professors asked a group of high school students to identify the lyrical themes of their favorite songs. Of the 662 ... the bible, torah, or any other religious book. Neglecting to censor aspects of a person's life that are much more influential than the music they listen to proves that censorship is unnecessary. The First Amendment gives everyone a right to speak freely about anything. If censorsh...

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... or quality. Because in the end it's the public that decides if a song is a hit or flop. In 1968 many of Bob Dylan's music were banned from radio because his lyrics were too difficult to understand, many station managers feared the lyrics may contain offensive or lewd messages. However, stations ... still played Dylan's songs covered by other artists. Censorship today is not as bad as it was then, that's because the music industries of today have not let its self be bullied by organizations like PMRC and their self indulged oversize egos, but have learned to compromise with ... and ran ...

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... stage and their albums have been banned from stores. I think differently because of how the censorship bureau has taken extreme efforts to ban hip-hop music and the distribution of it. "How can covering children's ears solve serious social problems like violent crime, racism, or suicide? If suppressing creative ... Most of the early problems with censorship were in the early 1950's. The 90's are the most controversial decade dealing with the censorship of music. The rap group "2 Live Crew" was the target for the censorship bureau in the time. The groups lyrics weren't as violent, but mo...

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... the news about teenagers committing suicide or hate crimes due to certain song lyrics among the rap and rock genres. Many rappers do not serve as good role models for the children that listen to their music. For example, Tupac Shakur, who was sentenced to jail for 30 days for the ... failed attempt of hitting a man with a baseball bat during a concert, or Ice Cube, who killed a man at a bowling alley, these two men are very popular among the rap community and countless ... through parents complaining about the lyrics. Even "negative" publicity such as this help propel musicians and the...

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... do that. The media and the movies are not the only things that seem to give people the wrong impression. The music business is something that always gets a bad rap. A lot of the music out is about people's real life, or something they feel like they have to create a fantasy world because their life ... is or was really bad. Gangsta rap is the genera of music that catches the most flack about how violent it is. The things ... that these songs are about are real life to these people and how they still live. Most rap music is about the problems is urban environments. There is not much new...

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... some stupid excuse, saying movies and singers provoked their children. In my opinion, I listen to all sorts of music especially rap, but I never act upon the lyrics. Before I turned twenty-one I drank alcohol. In a lot of the rap songs they always talk about drinking and that sort of stuff. But I drank because I wanted to, I liked ... party. Our group never was caught but if we were to, would we blame it on a rap video we saw? No way, it's unbelieveable how irresponsible some people are. If a kid does act upon a movie or music video then they have some real problems. In a Rollin Stones M...

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... all action programs were targeted towards boys, the power rangers have girls. Many would agree that TV manipulates kids but it also manipulates teenagers. Music offers something different to teenagers: an interview with the lead singer from the rock group Marilyn Manson. An androgynous figure dressed al in black, he ... all sorts."" What is remarkable is not the interview but its airtime 9o'clock Saturday morning. In September 1995, Warner music group bowed to public pressure and announced it was severing its 50% stake in Interscope records; home to Nine inch nails and controversial ... ...

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... could not be expressed in society due too peoples complaints and ideas of what is "appropriate." Expression, is just one aspect of the music people create. Music censorship suppresses an artist's individual expression. Violating the right to free speech. The Encarta world English dictionary defines censorship as "the suppression ... to practice that right, is going against everything this country is based on. III REFUTING THE OPINION However, many times in life, the music we listen too does in fact have an influence on how we dress, and act in public. Many public officials see this as a...

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... liftin you 10 feet).. in the air I don't care who is there and who saw me just jaw you The twins, Leila and Sara, listen to music similar to this on a regular basis. If you were to meet these individuals, you would know that they are anything but violent in nature. Personally, I' ... violence among teenagers in schools. Sadly, most students listen to the same exact music and the same artists repeatedly. It is safe to say that most adolescents listen either to rap or rock. If so many are listening to this music that affects your behavior, why are so little people having outbursts? If look...

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... farther, until anything goes rules and censors no longer exist. It's a fact that the things that are accepted and tolerated as far as the music industries censor standards are not what they have been in the past. The things that artists wouldn't dream about saying for the public to hear a ... murder? Apparently not since that has already been the case in more than one instance, but why? Is music capable of driving someone to kill? Could the lyrics of a rock band or rap group really give a person all the elements needed to step over the edge, past the point of rational ... thinking and ...

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... far back as the 1960s, it first became a major controversy in the 1980s, with the introduction of rap and heavy metal music. Many parents were concerned that these two forms of music were corrupting their children's minds with their lyrics which often had overt violent, sexual, and occult themes, ... musician John Denver, and Dee Snider, lead singer of the hair-metal band Twisted Sister. Unlike Zappa and Denver, Snider's music was actually among the music in question. These infamous hearings eventually resulted in the implementation of warning labels called parental advisories on tapes an...

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... pop superstar Janet Jackson pushes the envelope on her latest album "All for You" with sexual references and profanities. "The Columbine school shooting has been traced to the music of Marilyn Manson whose music was said to have been played constantly by the shooters. Sexual language is everywhere. A version of Shaggy's hit "It Wasn't Me" talks about a man getting caught ... popular hit on R&B, "Oochie Wolly" graphically describes oral and group sex" (Bayles 42). Concerned parents, educators, community leaders and pressure groups have complained about the sexually explicit lyrics found...

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... school. A school superintendent in Portsmouth, New Hampshire forbid his students from wearing Marilyn Manson tee shirts or other "Goth" attires. If expression in music and dress are protected by the first amendment, then why are there constantly people out to label anything different than the norm as deviant? Persecuting ... parent's support in fostering a healthy teenager? Diversity is constantly being preached up and down the block when it comes to racial acceptance. However when music and forms of dress are concerned it becomes a potent question of morality and calls into question if a...

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... exposed to over mass media often have other factors influencing their decision to do so. The Colorado school shootings were mostly blamed on Marilyn Manson for his controversial three-minute music videos involving a school shooting, not the years of abuse the children received from their peers for not participating in their social trends. It is possible for one's views to be ... be it, though why must censorship exist for everyone? Today's technology allows one to censor their own personal televisions so that they can only access certain stations. As far as music, books, and other forms...

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