The Pros And Cons Of Music Censorship

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Music censorship has been known for keeping explicit songs from kids, but has morphed into reasons for suspensions from schools, jail time for off the wall artists, and created limitations of the first amendment; thus the government should keep their business on bleeping out phrases they find unsuitable. There’s many people with different likes of music, but why has it come to people assuming the worst about an artist and their musically outlet and blurring their work out for the sake of censorship, to being arrested for many years! Band members are affected just as much. It goes from being banned from all radio stations to being banned from the country. Punishments like this has happened and will continue to forever, causing the question what has blurred lines turn into and when did this start.
Back in the day, music has become more available and because of this, music has better affected a lot of people. If you wanted to listen to music, you would either get a record of it, or simply watch the band live. It was when the radio was …show more content…
Radio stations are biased towards artist and songs. They play the same songs play over and over again, because they know what artist you’re going to like. In “Censoring Music Lyrics”, it says some radios go as far a blacklisting artist like Pete Seeger and The Weaver for the anti-communist passion. Also Nuzum said,” Radio stations across the country remove songs by the Dixie Chicks from airplay because of a comment made by the group’s singer saying she was embarrassed that U.S. President George W. Bush was from her home state of Texas.” This is a good example to show how people's opinion trumps over the actual the music itself. As bad as all of this sounds, there’s some good censorship in the world, without it, radio stations would only be sold as a side item to

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