What do these examples of anti-rock activities have in common?
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When | What style of rock/ artists | What feature is focus of objection | What problem this feature said to cause | Who complained |
mid-'50s | rock'n'roll | beat | Teen promiscuity | |
mid-'50s | rock'n'roll | musicians' ethnicity | Miscegenation | White Citizen's Council ... |
late-'50s | rock and roll | musicians' "lifestyle"-J.L.Lewis' 13 yr old wife../CBerry.. | Role models for "degeneracy" in teens | |
'60s | folk music and rock | lyrics | Communism among youth | conservative politicians |
late '60s-early '70s | psychedelic rock | lyrics and musician's lifestyle | Drug use: pot and acid | conservative politicians |
mid-70s | '70s R&B, disco etc. | lyrics | Promiscuity | Rev. Jesse Jackson |
'85 | heavy metal | lyrics | Suicide, satanism | PMRC/ Christian-right Senate hearings and media campaign |
'86 | Dead Kennedys | poster | Obscene [kids] | |
late '80s | heavy metal songs by Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne | lyrics --> subliminal verbal messages on records | Suicide | Religious-right wing prosecutors and parents of suicide teens into metal |
1990-96 | Rap | lyrics+ - obscene, misogynist, violent | Fans will use this as basis to model their lanaguage, beliefs and behavior | Christian-right (through local voting power & evangelical-based Prosecutors); Delores Tucker & Sen.C.M-Braun |
1997 | Marilyn Manson | lyrics
stage show |
satanism
sexual perversion |
Rev. Wildman |
1999 | "Hate Rock" | lyrics | hate crimes
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