1. Musical Censorship: The Oppression Of Society
... Levinson says in the commentary, "BLAME THAT TUNE: Adolescent Speech and Moral Panics" that: Though the original target is usually one specific thing - crime comics in the 1950s, crime-glorifying rap lyrics forty years later - the campaign quickly expands into an effort to stop many things - all comics, all hip-hop - and to blame those things for whatever goes wrong in ... now have the ability to restrict music from their children on the basis of a sticker. The overwhelming majority of albums labeled with a "Parental Advisory" stickers are primarily either rock or rap albums. The rhetor...
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