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Sex & music has it gone too far? backlash over lyrics, violence and threat to young women grows
THERE'S always been a connection between sex and music, but a new generation and new generations of technology have pushed the connection to the limits, ......(Continue Reading) 'Bang': Guns, rap, and silence - violence in rap music
A lot of people were interested in the Sean "Puffy" Combs trial: fans of rap music; celebrity-watchers; connoisseurs of popular culture. But one group ......(Continue Reading)Getting a Bad Rap? - offensive lyrics in rap music - Brief Article
"MY MOTHER DID DRUGS --tar, liquor, cigarettes, and speed/The baby came out--disfigured .../It was a seed who would grow up just as crazy as she/Don't ......(Continue Reading)Does censorship make business sense? Inner City Broadcasting has joined the battle against violence in music - New York, New York radio station owner bans
Inner City Broadcasting has joined other black-owned radio station owners in preventing the playing of lyrics they feel incites black-on-black violence....(Continue Reading)Black and gay and hunted: in Jamaica, lesbians and gays are the victims of violent persecution—often murder. Fuelling this gay-bashing are popular
It is like living in Afghanistan under the Taliban," says Richard, a 28-year-old gay Jamaican. "I wake up in the morning not knowing whether ......(Continue Reading)
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