You Can't Play That: A Selective Chronology of Banned Music: 1850-1991.

Volz, Edward J.

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ERIC Number: EJ433200

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Publication Date: 1991

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You Can't Play That: A Selective Chronology of Banned Music: 1850-1991.

Volz, Edward J.

School Library Journal, v37 n7 p16-18 Jul 1991

Discussion of music censorship provides a chronology of banned music from 1850 to the present. Highlights include reasons for music censorship, including lyrics that concern politics, sex, drugs, or death; rewriting song lyrics; radio air play versus sales; warning labels; First Amendment principles; and suggestions to defuse censorship in libraries. (19 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Audiodisks, Audiotape Recordings, Censorship, Library Administration, Library Collections, Library Materials, Moral Issues, Moral Values, Music, Radio

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: First Amendment

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