One Week from Today . . . Exam The Second

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One Week from Today . . . Exam The Second

• Today
• Special Guest Lecture (exam material will be
  covered!)
• Friday Lab
• NO LAB MEETINGS
• Revised essays due by high noon (Fri. Oct. 26)
  in Dept. of Communication office (115 Switzler
  Hall)
• Turn in BOTH final draft and first draft

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Communication Controversy O the Day Report

The Rain Erin Bagby Chad Kesler Joe Lose Hillary
Wheeler

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Moving On . . . Whos Up Next?

• Smart One
• Jackie Carter
• Catherine Dudenhoeffer
• Adam Fritz
• Marlene Kelly
• Laura Tyson

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Music Censorship in America
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Pop Quiz!

• Can you name the title and artist?

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Sweet like candy to my soulSweet you rockAnd
sweet you rollLost for you Im so lost for you
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Look at him, walkin around grabbin his
you-know-whatFlippin the you-know-who," "Yeah,
but he's so cute though!"Yeah, I probably got a
couple of screws up in my head looseBut no
worse, than what's goin on in your parents'
bedrooms
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Picture yourself in a boat on a river,With
tangerine trees and marmalade skies.Somebody
calls you, you answer quite slowly,A girl with
kaleidoscope eyes.
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• How many times must a man look up
• Before he can see the sky?
• How many ears must one man have
• Before he can hear people cry?
• How many deaths will it take till he knows
• That too many people have died?

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• Gonna get down to it, soldiers are cutting us
  down.
• Should have been done long ago.
• What if you knew her and found her dead on the
  ground?
• How can you run when you know?

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When logic and proportionHave fallen sloppy
deadAnd the White Knight is talking
backwardsAnd the Red Queen's "off with her
head!"Remember what the dormouse saidFEED YOUR
HEAD
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Lets Review

• What rights does the First Amendment protect?
• What First Amendment freedom most clearly
  pertains to music lyrics?

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Lets Clarify

• What is censorship?
• the suppression of ideas, information, and
  expression that individuals, groups, or
  government officials find objectionable or
  dangerous
• So what is music censorship?
• Music censorship is any act that supports or
  allows the suppression, control, or banning of
  music or music-related works against the desire
  of its creator or intended audience.
• If a particular group forces the artist to edit
  his/her song, yet the artist does not want to,
  then according to the definition, he/she is being
  censored musically. The group is not allowing the
  artist to fully express his/her thoughts and
  opinions through music.

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Lets Clarify

• Whats the difference between violations of First
  Amendment rights and private and corporate acts
  of censorship?
• The First Amendment provides that the government
  cannot limit our rights to free expression
  however, the first amendment allows individual
  companies to set their own standards about
  content.

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Commonly Censored Content

• Violent Content
• Sexually Explicit Content
• Sexist Content
• Cussing
• Discriminatory Content (Race, Sexual Orient.)
• Suicidal Content
• Substance Abuse Content
• Anti-American Content
• The Occult

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Where do YOU Draw the Line?

• "As Nasty As They Want to Be." - 2 Live Crew (the
  first album to be declared legally obscene)
• In the album, the band uses the word "fuck" 226
  times, refers to women as "bitches" and "whores"
  163 times, uses 87 words or phrases referring to
  oral sex, and one mention of incest.

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Censorship Sometimes It Depends on the
Situation

• Post 9/11 changes in the music industry
• Dave Matthews nixes plans to release When the
  World Ends as his next single
• The Strokes remove the song NYC Cops from their
  recently released album
• Bush changed the title to their newest single
  (Speed Kills to The People that We Love)
• Clearchannel banned lyrically questionable
  songs from radio (e.g.,Fly, Jet Airliner,
  Its the End of the World as We Know It, and
  Great Balls of Fire)

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Whats Your Opinion?

• Music lyrics should not be censored because .

• Music lyrics should be censored because

A B
Be ready to defend your answer!
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Supply a Letter to Form a Word

• H__T

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Music Leads to Violence?

• Craig Anderson (2003) at Iowa State University
  and colleagues found that students who listened
  to songs with violent lyrics (songs by the
  Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill and Run DMC) were more
  likely to make aggressive associations in
  subsequent psychological tests.
• To make sure they were testing for the effect of
  lyrics only, the researchers exposed them to
  violent and non-violent songs by the same band.
  Individual personality differences to hostility
  were also assessed and taken into account.

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Music Leads to Violence?

• John McCollum commits suicide while listening to
  Ozzie Osbournes song, Suicide Solution
  (Suicide is the only way out. Don't know what
  it's really about.)
• Ronald Ray Howard, an eighth grade drop-out, was
  convicted of shooting Texas State Trooper Bill
  Davidson. Howard had been listening to the song
  Sister Souljah by Tupac Shakur (Cops on my
  tail...They finally pull me over and I laugh
  Remember Rodney King And I blast his punk ass.)
• The murders at Columbine HS in Littleton, CO have
  been blamed on the gunmen listening to Marilyn
  Manson and the bands KMFDM and Ramstein

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Parents Music Resource Center

• Introduction of the Parental Advisory Label
  (1990)
• Sticker is purely voluntary
• No set rating system
• Some companies refuse to carry albums with a
  sticker (e.g., WalMart)

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Backlash Against the PMRC

• Ice-T's album "Freedom of Speech" had a warning
  sticker that read "X-Rated Parents Strongly
  Cautioned Some Material May Not Be X-tra Hype
  And Inappropriate For Squares And Suckers."
• Participants such as CBS, RCA, AM and Warner
  avoided labeling anything at all after noting a
  serious drop in CD sales.