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All About Music Censorship
All About Music Censorship
All About Music Censorship
The debate on music censorship is one that has plagued all democratic nations and will continue to do so. Music censorship has taken many forms down the ages and has swung from one form where parents are agitating for inappropriate words and lyrics to be removed from songs that their children are listening to, right down to songs that the state has banned because they speak of change and revolution and are seen as being anti-establishment. Surely no one will take offence to music censorship particularly if it comes in the form of a few inappropriate or explicit words being blipped out or some explicit music albums being marked with Parental Advisory stickers to warn parents about the nature of the content in these songs. Even the case of some stores removing certain music albums from the shelves if the content is seen as being inappropriate can hardly be seen as a dangerous type of music censorship. One such incidence of music censorship took place when a song that spoke of people guns from the shelves in Wal Mart and killing themselves was removed completely from Wal Mart.