The Parents' Music Resource Center

From Information to Censorship

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4304405
AutoresClaude Chastagner (0000-0002-6516-3375, Les Afriques dans le Monde, autor correspondente)
Ano1999
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas179-192
Data de publicação1999-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPopular Music (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s026114300000903x
OpenAlexW2129605425
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas4

My purpose in this paper is to recount the history of the Parents' Music Resource Center, an American organisation founded in 1985 whose main concern has been to denounce the obscenity and violence of rock music on the grounds that it is partly responsible for the numerous ills that plague the United States. The PMRC claimed that it only wished to inform the public but my suggestion here is that the actions of the organisation resulted in a de facto censorship of popular music. I shall accordingly describe the various steps of the process that led from information to censorship as well as probe the deeper reasons that may have motivated the action of the Center

Action (physics · Archaeology · Censorship · Center (category theory · Media studies · Plague (disease · Political science · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Law · Music History and Culture