Discuss the issues surrounding the attempts to control the content of popular music

Censorship is the control of what people may say or hear, write or read, or see or do. Censorship can affect books, newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television programs, and speeches. Most of the early problems with the censorship of music came about in the early 1950's. This was the first real era of rock and roll in America. In 1954 a Michigan Congresswoman (Ruth Thompson) tried to pass a bill that stated that the …

…Education had been banned, and the official censors were scanning everything for signs of political content."(13) It becomes clear that the censorship is a state of swings and roundabouts that affects all classes, cultures and mediums at some point of out life's we may want to censor something from our children are we fascist because we want to protect our children or should we let them listen, see or read the argument is forever ongoing.