Music Censorship essays

Music Censorship essays Eventually it was discovered that God did not all want us to be the same. This was bad news for the governments of the world...Mankind must be made more uniformly if THE FUTURE was going to work out... It was about this time that someone came up with the idea of TOTAL CRIMINALIZATION, based on the principle that if we were ALL crooks we could at least be uniform to some degree in the eyes of the law. Shrewdly our legislators calculated that most people were too lazy to perform REAL CRIME. So new laws were made making it possible for anyone to violate them at any time of the day or night... which is one of the reasons why music was eventually made ILLEGAL. - Frank Zappa This quote from Frank Zappa is about how music and lyrics and censorship are so controversial that it has come to the point where people want to make music illegal. Censorship in music is a topic that has brought about much controversy in the past two decades. There have been many different arguments on the topic, however the question still remains if it should be censored or not. Some people believe that music should be censored so all audiences can hear it without it containing any controversial lyrics. Others believe it should not be censored and musical artists should be able to sing, speak, rap, or rhyme freely without anyone censoring them. People that think music should be censored believe that some of the language musical artists use is vulgar, obscene, and crude. Also the fact that music is played on medias such as radio and television, which are free to listen to by all audiences, there are many parents that would not wish for their kids to hear foul language. So on radio and television any controversial language is either silenced, edited out by a soft sound, or some artists make 2 versions of their songs; one that is made for the artists album, which is uncensored, and one for the television and radio with any ...