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Book Obscenity Controversies in Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon L. Woods
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-11-01
  • ISBN : 9781518887321
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Obscenity Controversies in Music written by Jon L. Woods and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Obscenity Controversies in Music Series (2 volumes) covers all of music's controversial songs and albums throughout modern music history. From 2 Live Crew to GG Allan & "Louie Louie", this series provides tons of information about tons of controversies. This serves as an excellent reference source and is perfect for a coffee table or a library.

Book Focus On  100 Most Popular 21St century American Musicians

Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular 21St century American Musicians written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Obscene Gestures

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  • Author : Patrick Lawrence
  • Publisher : Fordham University Press
  • Release : 2022-06-07
  • ISBN : 1531500110
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Obscene Gestures written by Patrick Lawrence and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, and others. Patrick S. Lawrence dives into notorious obscenity debates to reconsider the divergent afterlives of artworks that were challenged or banned over their taboo sexual content to reveal how these controversies affected their critical reception and commercial success in ways that were often determined at least in part by racial, gender, or sexual stereotypes and pernicious ethnographic reading practices. Starting with early postwar touchstone cases and continuing through the civil rights, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements, Lawrence demonstrates on one level that breaking sexual taboos in literary and cultural works often comes with cultural cachet and increased sales. At the same time, these benefits are distributed unequally, leading to the persistence of exclusive hierarchies and inequalities. Obscene Gestures takes its bearings from recent studies of the role of obscenity in literary history and canon formation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extending their insights into the postwar period when broad legal latitude for obscenity was established but when charges of obscenity still carried immense symbolic and political weight. Moreover, the rise of social justice movements around this time provides necessary context for understanding the application of legal precedents, changes in the publishing industry, and the diversification of the canon of American letters. Obscene Gestures, therefore, advances the study of obscenity to include recent developments in the understanding of race, gender, and sexuality while refining our understanding of late-twentieth-century American literature and political culture.

Book Understanding Popular Music Culture

Download or read book Understanding Popular Music Culture written by Roy Shuker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the variety of genres that make up pop music, Roy Shuker explores key subjects which shape our experience of music such as music production, the music industry, music policy, fans, audiences and subcultures.

Book Understanding Popular Music

Download or read book Understanding Popular Music written by Roy Shuker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Popular Music is an introductory textbook for students which explores the history and meaning of rock and popular music. Roy Shuker's study encompasses every aspect of popular music, from the history of the record industry to the concept of the `musician', from rock as cultural politics to MTV. Roy Shuker examines the music press; the impact of music videos; the workings of the industry, songs and genres; public performance; fans and subcultures, and the nature of the `pop star'. * Case studies include contemporary icons such as Frank Zappa, Prince and Madonna * Includes full bibliography and song listings Includes annotated guide to the key texts discussed

Book Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment

Download or read book Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment written by Lily E. Hirsch and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of the ways in which music is understood and exploited in American law enforcement and justice

Book Focus On  100 Most Popular American Rock Songwriters

Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular American Rock Songwriters written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Focus On  100 Most Popular American Autobiographers

Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular American Autobiographers written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Focus On  100 Most Popular Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

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Book Controversies in Critical Criminology

Download or read book Controversies in Critical Criminology written by Martin Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original essays introduce students to the complex and influential field of critical criminology. It presents many of the theories of critical criminology — Marxist, Feminist, Left Realist, Postmodern, Constitutive, Peacemaking, and Restorative Justice — and explores how, despite their distinctions, each theory is rooted in radical criminology, and all are critical of mainstream criminology.

Book Unclean Lips

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  • Author : Josh Lambert
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 1479876437
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Unclean Lips written by Josh Lambert and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual anti-Semitism and pornotopia: Theodore Dreiser, Ludwig Lewisohn, and the Harrad experiment -- The prestige of dirty words and pictures: Horace Liveright, Henry Roth, and the graphic novel -- Otherfuckers and motherfuckers: reproduction and allegory in Philip Roth and Adele Wiseman -- Seductive modesty: censorship vs. Yiddish and Orthodox tsnies -- Conclusion: Dirty Jews and the Christian right: Larry David and FCC v. Fox.

Book Focus On  100 Most Popular American Male Guitarists

Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular American Male Guitarists written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Matter of Obscenity

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  • Author : Christopher Hilliard
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-09-26
  • ISBN : 0691226105
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book A Matter of Obscenity written by Christopher Hilliard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.

Book To Live and Defy in LA

Download or read book To Live and Defy in LA written by Felicia Angeja Viator and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis. How is it that gangsta rap—so dystopian that it struck aspiring Brooklyn rapper and future superstar Jay-Z as “over the top”—was born in Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood, surf, and sun? In the Reagan era, hip-hop was understood to be the music of the inner city and, with rare exception, of New York. Rap was considered the poetry of the street, and it was thought to breed in close quarters, the product of dilapidated tenements, crime-infested housing projects, and graffiti-covered subway cars. To many in the industry, LA was certainly not hard-edged and urban enough to generate authentic hip-hop; a new brand of black rebel music could never come from La-La Land. But it did. In To Live and Defy in LA, Felicia Viator tells the story of the young black men who built gangsta rap and changed LA and the world. She takes readers into South Central, Compton, Long Beach, and Watts two decades after the long hot summer of 1965. This was the world of crack cocaine, street gangs, and Daryl Gates, and it was the environment in which rappers such as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E came of age. By the end of the 1980s, these self-styled “ghetto reporters” had fought their way onto the nation’s radio and TV stations and thus into America’s consciousness, mocking law-and-order crusaders, exposing police brutality, outraging both feminists and traditionalists with their often retrograde treatment of sex and gender, and demanding that America confront an urban crisis too often ignored.

Book Girls Lean Back Everywhere

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  • Author : Edward De Grazia
  • Publisher : New York : Random House
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book Girls Lean Back Everywhere written by Edward De Grazia and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1992 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the battles fought and won during the twentieth century in behalf of free expression.

Book This Business of Music

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  • Author : M. William Krasilovsky
  • Publisher : Billboard Books
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0823077233
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book This Business of Music written by M. William Krasilovsky and published by Billboard Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and up-to-date guide to the music industry covers such topics as record industry trends, copyright law, sources of publishing income, buying and selling of catalogues, agents and managers, and music videos.

Book Controversies in Media Ethics

Download or read book Controversies in Media Ethics written by A. David Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversies in Media Ethics offers students, instructors and professionals multiple perspectives on media ethics issues presenting vast "gray areas" and few, if any, easy answers. This third edition includes a wide range of subjects, and demonstrates a willingness to tackle the problems raised by new technologies, new media, new politics and new economics. The core of the text is formed by 14 chapters, each of which deals with a particular problem or likelihood of ethical dilemma, presented as different points of view on the topic in question, as argued by two or more contributing authors. The 15th chapter is a collection of "mini-chapters," allowing students to discern first-hand how to deal with ethical problems. Contributing authors John A. Armstrong, Peter J. Gade, Julianne H. Newton, Kim Sheehan, and Jane B. Singer provide additional voices and perspectives on various topics under discussion. This edition has been thoroughly updated to provide: discussions of issues reflecting the breadth and depth of the media spectrum numerous real-world examples broad discussion of confidentiality and other timely topics A Companion Website (www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415963329) supplies resources for both students and instructors. You can also join the Controversies community on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CME3rd Developed for use in media ethics courses, Controversies in Media Ethics provides up-to-date discussions and analysis of ethical situations across a variety of media, including issues dealing with the Internet and new media. It provides a unique consideration of ethical concerns, and serves as provocative reading for all media students.