Sunday, December 20, 2009

Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America


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If you were expecting more...

Even though my original music censorship Web site has been quite popular over the years, I have decided to close it down. There is some basic information on the book below, which is still available used and in digital formats.


"Nuzum has the cultural critic's eye for the quietly fascinating."
--Associated Press

"A breezy and informative book, that should be read
by anyone interested in U.S. popular culture."
--Library Journal Review

"...a thoughtful, readable work."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

From the Book Cover

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Music Your Parents Never Wanted You To Hear

Believe it or not, music censorship in America did not begin with Tipper Gore's horrified reaction to her daughter's Prince album. The vilification of popular music by government and individuals has been going on for decades. Now, for the first time, Parental Advisory offers a thorough and complete chronicle of the music that has been challenged or suppressed -- by the people or the government -- in the United States.

From Dean Martin's "Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma'am" to Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar; from freedom fighters such as Frank Zappa and in-your-face rappers such a N.W.A. to crusaders such as Tipper Gore, this intelligent and entertaining book shows how censorship has crossed sexual, class, and ethnic lines, and how many see it as a de facto form of racism. With nearly one hundred fascinating photographs of musicians, record burning, and controversial cover art; illuminating sidebars; and a decade-by-decade timeline of important moments in censorship history, Parental Advisory is by turns frightening and hilarious -- but always revealing.

How To Purchase

Parental Advisory is out of print. Used copies are available anywhere used books accumulate. Both Barnes and Noble and Amazon sell both used and digital versions.

More writing on the subject

Since Parental Advisory's publication, I have written a large white paper on music censorship post 9/11. It is available, free, as a PDF here. I'm afraid most of my other articles/editorials on the subject are quite dated now, but you can find a few of them here.

Interview Requests or Questions for School Projects

Music censorship is a subject that is very important to me, yet I rarely work on the subject any longer. I have moved on to exploring other subjects. Therefore, I rarely do any speaking or interviews on the subject. Parental Advisory contains a wealth of information and analysis on the subject and I wish to keep my contributions as they are.

Since I receive so many requests, I do not do any interviews or answer questions for students researching school projects.

Errata

Following is a list of mistakes contained in the first edition of Parental Advisory.

15 The television host identified as Christina Paul Crouch is actually named Paul Crouch.

43 The band name “Megadeth” is spelled incorrectly.

71 & 229 The text misidentifies Moby Grape’s Skip Spence as the group’s drummer. While he was the drummer for Jefferson Airplane, he played guitar in Moby Grape.

78 & 245 The name of the Scorpions' album is Love at First Sting, not Love at First Bite.

112 The members of the group Body Count were all African-American. There were no white members as the text suggests.

157 & 240 References to the Rolling Stone’s record label are incorrect. The correct label was Rolling Stones/Atlantic.

220 The photo of Elvis Presley is from one of his 1956 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, not the 1957 appearance as the text indicates.

118 The case Burstyn v. Wilson occurred in 1952, not 1962.

141 & 228 While singing "Light My Fire"on the Ed Sullivan Show, Doors singer Jim Morrison did not sing facing the camera.

150 & 211 The song "The Mooche" does not have any lyrics as indicated in text. The song contains scatting, not sung words.

269 The first reference to the album Nasty As They Wanna Be contains the typo "Wanne."

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