Censorship in music has been a major problem plaguing America since the early nineteen forties. It came to a head during the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal and hard rock were getting the taste of the censorship heat. Now in the nineteen nineties the major focus of censorship is rap; primarily gangster rap. Some of the main factors of music in general …showed first 75 words of 1759 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1759 total…there and it is obscene it doesn't mean you have to listen to it. You may not like it but to someone else it may be genius. In the words of John Lennon, "LET IT BE." Columbine Bibliography Winfield, Betty Houchin, and Sandra Davidson. Bleep! Censoring rock and rap music. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999. WWW.RATM.Com- Official site of Rage against the Machine Rolling stone magazine, Columbine: whose fault is it Marylin manson may 28 1999