... community, institutional, and corporate attempts to regulate society according to their personal standards of decency and order - or to the standards they feel best serve themselves and their peers. The ones whose purpose is to control, suppress or ban the music, lyrics, and/or music-related art that ... in the last 60 years. 1955 Æ'x In one week's time during April, Chicago radio stations receive 15,000 complaint letters protesting their broadcast of rock music. Æ'x Variety runs a three-part series on what they term "leer-ics," or R&B songs with obscene lyrics, calling for censorship ...

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... censor music. The problem did not actually surface until the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal and hard rock were the two general types of music that was the focal point of censorship. Now in the twenty-first century the major focus of censorship is rap, mainly gangster rap ... , and instead showed a great respect for Eminem's right of free speech. Their support for Eminem should be appreciated by all. Stevie Wonder, Madonna, and Christian rocker Dan Hasseltine cheered for Eminem's rights. Elton John set ...

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