History of Music Censorship
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Music Censorship in the
1950's
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1953
+ Jukeboxes are confiscated after "Control the Dimwits," an article in Billboard talking about double-meanings of R&B lyrics.
1954
1955
+  Variety runs a series on R&B songs with obscene lyrics, calling for censorship of the recording industry.

+  Rock & roll concerts are cancelled after observers mistake dancing for riots and fighting.

+  CBS cancels Alan Freed's Rock 'n Roll Dance Party after Frankie Lymon is shown dancing with a white girl.
1956
+  Members of the White Citizens Council of Birmingham rush the stage at a Nat King Cole concert and beat him, confusing his music w/ R&B
1957
+  Elvis Presley is shown only from the waist up on his 3rd and final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.

+   Congress considers legislation that requires song lyrics to be screened and altered by a review committee before being broadcast or sold.
1958
+  The Mutual Broadcasting system drops all rock and roll records from its netword, calling it "distorted, monotonous, noisy music."
1959
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