Essays Tagged: "Parental Advisory"

Censorship

by law makers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist and hi ... the album are found obscene or otherwise unsuitable.In order to begin the debate on whether or not parental advisory stickers serve as a form of censorship, one must consider what the word censor imp ...

(3 pages) 89 0 4.1 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Censorship

by law makers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist and hi ... um are found obscene or otherwise unsuitable. In order to begin the debate on whether or not parental advisory stickers serve as a form of censorship, one must consider what the word censor imp ...

(3 pages) 143 2 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Censorship In Music Today-Both Sides of the Argument

now a requirement by law for record companies to put stickers on tapes and compact discs that say: "Parental Advisory. Explicit Lyrics". The reason that law was passed was because many angry parents s ...

(4 pages) 212 2 4.9 Aug/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Parental Advisory on Music.

es. It is now a requirement by law for record companies to put stickers ontapes and C.D.'s that say Parental Advisory. Explicit Lyrics. The reason that law waspassed was because many angry parents sue ...

(3 pages) 38 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

To Have or not to have Parental Advisory? Compare and contast essay on weather or not to have or not to have Parental Advisory labels od Cd's, Includes 16 refrences

To have or not to have,Parental AdvisoriesBack in the 1980's an issue arose on the topic of whether or not there should be ... number of CD's with some kind of Advisory on it, but not until 1990 was there an industry standard Parental Advisory. The parental advisory is supposed to keep obscene words out of the ears of our in ... ust false.There are more than a sufficient amount of CD's that are coming out as we speak that have parental advisories on them. With over 10 years under its belt, the program of giving a CD a parenta ...

(5 pages) 65 0 4.2 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Parental Advisory Labels: Useless.

." This liberty, however, was challenged by Tipper Gore and her cronies in the mid-1980s with their Parental Advisory labels on albums. Artists no longer have a right to say what they want, and more i ... y what they want, and more importantly, we as consumers no longer have a right to buy what we want. Parental Advisory labels on albums are utterly useless, and infringe on our right to free speech.In ...

(4 pages) 44 0 3.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Should We Be Limiting Explicit Lyrics In Music?

the Recording Industry Association of America stands behind that information. She asserts that the Parental Advisory Program is doing its job in controlling what some people might deem inappropriate ... rents feel that the RIAA is correct in not limiting explicit lyrics, but of filtering them with the parental advisory alert labels. It seems that perhaps the music itself is not the problem, nor is it ...

(3 pages) 39 0 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Censorship of Music

oung children. According to the Boston Globe, Wal-Mart has decided not to "carry record albums with parental advisory stickers and will even ask artists to change what they perceive to be objectionabl ... "banned in Wal-Mart, meaning the 2,300 stores across the nation that won't carry record albums with parental advisory stickers" (Morse c13). To me, this is an outrage and I believe that the topic of m ...

(4 pages) 35 0 4.0 May/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Censorship in Music : this is my essay I wrote for my independent study.

ich are not what your favorite artists originally created. Some retailers refuse to carry CDs with "Parental Advisory Stickers", a few also go as far as to make it known to labels and artists that if ... which contains " blatantly pro-drug lyrics. All of the CDs targeted as "obscene" already carry RIAA Parental Advisory Labels. Parents are already provided with the information they need if they choose ...

(6 pages) 29 0 4.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

First Amendment and Music Censorship

licit lyrics be identified (RIAA; Background 1 of 2). The tool produced from this agreement was the Parental Advisory Label. "The label is a notice to parents that recordings identified with the logo ... of 4). These labels allow parents to make informed decisions of their child's music purchases. "The Parental Advisory Labels are a perfect balance of respecting the freedom of expression our recording ...

(5 pages) 67 2 4.7 May/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues