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Censoring Music
AND ROCK'N'ROLL MUSIC
Even from the beginning, rap and rock music had a very difficult way to go through. First, it was the rock and roll music, which was described as "juvenile deliquency" or "jungle" by the "Time" Magazine in 1956. This first report on rock and roll influenced a lot the society's point of view upon this issue.
First, the rock and roll had success only in the South and when the Southern recording companies began to fill the market with their musical products, their competitors got defensive and called them irresponsible and morally corrupting. They even got further with their disagreement and asked for government censorship. But when they saw that those other companies started to make nice money out of the selling of the rock and roll music and they did not, the whole industry begun to "embrace" this kind of music, step by...
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