Censorship of Music

All through history, music censors have attacked controversial lyrics and have blamed the music for the basis of societies problems. This act of censoring music is most definitely not recent. Records date back for years, in 1957 when Elvis Presley was performing on the Ed Sullivan Show, the camera men were forced by the host to only film Elvis from the waist up to avoid offending sexually sensitive viewers (because of the rotating motions of his …

…will not carry albums with "parental advisory" stickers. Before researching this topic, I had no idea how much music was being censored without my knowledge and I am glad that I was able to learn all of this. Next time you go to Wal-Mart and you see a CD, that has been censored, think about what the artist had to sacrifice and then decide if you want to support that type of music censoring industry.