Parental Advisory

by Nuzum, Eric D.

• ISBN13: 9780688167721
• ISBN10: 0688167721
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-15
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Music Your Parents Never Wanted You To Hear Believe it or not, music censorship in America did not begin with Tipper Gore's horrified reaction to her daughter's Prince album. The vilification of popular music by government and individuals has been going on for decades. Now, for the first time, Parental Advisory offers a thorough and complete chronicle of the music that has been challenged or suppressed -- by the people or the government -- in the United States. From Dean Martin's "Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma'am" to Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar; from freedom fighters such as Frank Zappa and in-your-face rappers such a N.W.A. to crusaders such as Tipper Gore, this intelligent and entertaining book shows how censorship has crossed sexual, class, and ethnic lines, and how many see it as a de facto form of racism. With nearly one hundred fascinating photographs of musicians, record burning, and controversial cover art; illuminating sidebars; and a decade-by-decade timeline of important moments in censorship history, Parental Advisory is by turns frightening and hilarious -- but always revealing.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART ONE Issues in Music Censorship
``Freedom of Speech'' An Overview of Music Censorship	3	(10)
``Banned in the USA'' The PMRC and Music Labeling	13	(31)
``Happiness Is a Warm Gun'' Violence	44	(23)
``Cover Me'' Album Cover Art	67	(16)
``I Want My MTV'' MTV and Music Videos	83	(16)
``Ebony and Ivory'' Race	99	(17)
``Dear God'' Religion	116	(23)
``Comfortably Numb'' Drugs	139	(10)
``I Want Your Sex'' Sex	149	(13)
``What's So Funny `Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?'' Politics and Protest	162	(13)
``I Fought the Law and the Law Won'' Law	175	(16)
``Censorshit'' From the Mouths of the Censors	191	(20)
PART TWO The Chronology of Music Censorship in the United States
Before the 1950s	211	(2)
1950s	213	(10)
1960s	223	(10)
1970s	233	(8)
1980s	241	(26)
1990s	267	(34)
2000	301	(4)
Notes	305	(6)
Glossary	311	(2)
Bibliography	313	(12)
Thanks	325	(2)
Index	327