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Music is something known and popular around the world. People love to listen to music while relaxing, either warming up for a certain event or even listening to it while at work. We may find ourselves nodding, tapping or humming to the music because it sounds good and we may even sing while listening to the lyrics. Censorship is a big thing in music for various reasons. Censorship of music is the practice of restricting free access to musical works. This censorship may come from a wide variety of motivations, including moral, political, military or religious reasons.
Music is a free expression of the ideas, traditions and emotions of individuals and of peoples. It may express musicians’ hopes and aspirations, their joys and sorrows, their very identity as a culture. Yet these expressions may conflict with those of people in power. The ideas themselves may simply be unpopular or outside the current thinking or practices of a regime or special interest group. For there are those through the world who are threatened by the very nature of a free exchange of ideas. There are those who will stop at nothing to stifle them. Censorship can range from the complete government-enforced legal prohibition of a musical work, to private, voluntary removal of content when a musical work appears in a certain context. An example of this latter form of censorship is the radio edit.
Music has historically been, and continues to be, censored in an attempt to enforce morality. It is not a coincidence that music censorship in America began to accelerate during the 1950s, when traditional and conservative values began to unravel. At the time, order, strict obedience to authority, and conservative values were part of the accepted mindset. With the advent of rock ‘n’ roll, however, young America began to loosen attitudes on issues relating to morality. Technology also played an important part in shaping the moral power struggle in the 1950s. For example, the 1920s era saw similar
Music is a free expression of the ideas, traditions and emotions of individuals and of peoples. It may express musicians’ hopes and aspirations, their joys and sorrows, their very identity as a culture. Yet these expressions may conflict with those of people in power. The ideas themselves may simply be unpopular or outside the current thinking or practices of a regime or special interest group. For there are those through the world who are threatened by the very nature of a free exchange of ideas. There are those who will stop at nothing to stifle them. Censorship can range from the complete government-enforced legal prohibition of a musical work, to private, voluntary removal of content when a musical work appears in a certain context. An example of this latter form of censorship is the radio edit.
Music has historically been, and continues to be, censored in an attempt to enforce morality. It is not a coincidence that music censorship in America began to accelerate during the 1950s, when traditional and conservative values began to unravel. At the time, order, strict obedience to authority, and conservative values were part of the accepted mindset. With the advent of rock ‘n’ roll, however, young America began to loosen attitudes on issues relating to morality. Technology also played an important part in shaping the moral power struggle in the 1950s. For example, the 1920s era saw similar