American Censorship

Music censorship has been a major problem affecting America since the early nineteen forties. It came to a peak during the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the radical hippie movement. Then, during the nineteen eighties, it was heavy metal and hard rock music that received the most censorship. Now in the year two thousand three the major focus of censorship is rap; mostly gangster rap. Some of the primary factors of music that cause legal problems are sexual content, death threats, and obscene language. Censorship is an attack against our first amendment right granting us the freedom of speech. However, if a song or album is dubbed obscene, the first amendment does not protect this. The attempted censorship of music is not just because people need a cause to fight. …