Taking a Look at Music Censorship

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Music censorship has been debated since the beginning of recording history. The censoring of music is the practice of restricting free access to musical works. Songs with strong language, racist views, or harmful references will have warning labels on them. There are currently no laws regarding the censorship of music. Censorship originated from a wide variety of motivations, including moral, political, military or religious reasons. The censoring of music is incorrect and should be eradicated. Music has been prominent in culture for thousands of years; it is a big contributing factor to moral compositions, for some it is a personal refuge, for others it is enjoyment, music is an important aspect and to censor music would be racially discriminative, insensitive, and detrimental towards society.
It has been discussed that the more intellectually advanced a person is, the more likely they are to be unhappy or clinically depressed and seek solace in heavy metal or another branch of rock music (Unhappy). For a product, many highly, intelligent people, whose social development progresses much slower than that of most people, have trouble coping with the stress of life that present themselves to everyone. This inevitably induces these individuals to seek refuge in music situations where knowledge and skills support their experience. They go through the tough times alone because adults tend to believe that the intelligent group of children can deal with anything because they are intellectually superior. Adults don't understand that they need assistance. Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, is an example of this (Unhappy). He took his own life in 1961; he knew of both intelligence and of unh...

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