How can music be censored

Music is censored because of clashing moral values, racial motivations, generational value gaps, and fear. During America in the s, traditional and conservative values were strongly enforced.

Technology, such as radios, became dominant in the s which gave access to new types of music. Radios allowed different genres of music to be played, and the youth had more access to different types of music. Technology has decreased morality in the younger generation, because they have more access to what the older generation deems as inappropriate songs.

Authorities tried to regulate topics of drugs, violence, and sex, seeing as these topics were no longer hidden or kept in secret. Generational value gaps had a huge effect on music censorship.

Under Iranian law, women are not allowed to sing on their own in front of men - and during major concerts in Iran, a member of the Ministry of Culture always attends to ensure these laws are being upheld.

The Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot, were famously arrested and sentenced for hooliganism following a performance in In a recent interview, Pussy Riot said:. Any gesture is justified if it corresponds to the artistic value that you put into it. The music was banned in and anyone caught playing or listening to it, would be punished. In , Nguyen Van Loc - a Vietnamese musician - formed a band to play at weddings and parties.

The band consisted of two guitarists and a singer. In a recent interview for the BBC , he said:. We knew that [this] kind of music was not allowed as they banned everything from the past. They were arrested in What is especially interesting about this case, in the UK, is that this is the first time in British legal history that a prison sentence has been issued for performing a song. The Metropolitan Police have also been exploring the connection between gang violence and videos, and have so far removed over 90 videos from YouTube.

Music has an incredible power and should never be underestimated. This perhaps was an ominous hint that anti-corporate sentiment was about to replace sex and drugs as the real taboo. Here again, the intentions were probably good, but it looked like a case of corporate overreach, seemingly targeting any song that mentioned New York, had the slightest war imagery, or made any kind of political statement.

But, as with the PMRC, this latest attempt at music censorship inadvertently did the world a favor. The personal life of an artist may be the only remaining one. Are any taboos are left Otherwise, it appears to be a free-for-all, and even the brashest rappers are seldom under fire the way NWA and 2 Live Crew once were.

Both songs are, above all, about desire. Looking for more? Discover the most controversial album covers of all time. You forgot to put Mary Whitehouse, who protested against My Dingaling among other things. Grace Jones lived in my area before she was famous. Her then-husband was the VP, which made her Second Lady. Just saying. I think censorship stretches a lot further than pop music today not least Facebook and Twitter. Look at the filth filled mess the world wallows in now.

All from the last 70 years in which music has gone from a pleasant melodie to the smut filled crap out everywere. Movies are the same. We have created our own nightmare.