Music_Censorship_Needs_To_Be_Stopped

Music Censorship Needs To Be Stopped Music Censorship Needs to be Stopped “Censorship is based on fear.” Johnny Clegg, a South African musician and songwriter said this in an interview about his music (What). Music censorship has been around since music has been mass produced (Volz 16). Censorship is wrong for a number of reasons. People who are for censorship typically don’t know what censoring is, or why they ban some forms of music. There have also been many songs banned in the history of music that are now seen as no longer offensive. Censorship has also been a big topic in times of national disaster, the most recent example was September 11, 2001. Music is a free expression of the ideas, emotions, and views of individuals and of people, because of this, music censorship is a violation of human rights. Despite government attempts to ban certain types of music, under no circumstances should lawmakers dictate what we can and cannot listen to. You may be wondering to yourself, why is music censored' Throughout history, reasons for censorship has come, and gone. The issues that are most typically faced in today’s world are sex, violence, drugs, and political reasons. music, songs, censorship, against, banned, out, been, song, radio, government, artists, seen, one, because, band, volz, since, should, people, censored, through, states, rock, rights, pmrc, offensive, around, album, world, views, united, stations, speak, sexual, references