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N.W.A's debut album Straight Outta Compton (which had attracted controversy for its song "Fuck tha Police") includes the song "Express Yourself", which criticizes the censorship of music by radio stations, and hip-hop musicians who write inoffensive songs to target mainstream radio airplay. "Express Yourself" is the only song on the album to ...
The genesis of blues music in Detroit occurred as a result of the first wave of the Great Migration of African Americans from the Deep South.In the 1920s, Detroit was home to a number of pianists who performed in the clubs of Black Bottom and played in the boogie-woogie style, such as Speckled Red, Charlie Spand, William Ezell, and most prominently, Big Maceo Merriweather.
New Documentary Explores Cause and Effect of Music Censorship. Sofia Goldstein. March 5, 2024 at 1:14 PM. Chuck D To Narrate Audible Series Exploring Hip-Hop's South Bronx Origins.
The Clear Channel memorandum contains songs that, in their titles or lyrics, vaguely refer to open subjects intertwined with the September 11 attacks, such as airplanes, collisions, death, conflict, violence, explosions, the month of September, Tuesday (the day of the week the attacks occurred) and New York City, as well as general concepts that could be connected to aspects of the attacks ...
The contract talks finally reached the handshake point at 3 a.m. PT on Feb. 23. But the real breakthrough in the negotiation between the American Federation of Musicians and Hollywood’s major ...
Registration has begun for “Stax Meets Motown,” which features musicians from Stax Music Academy playing hits from both of the influential soul and R&B music labels. ... and the Detroit Riots ...
John Alexander Sinclair Jr. was born in Flint, Michigan, on October 2, 1941, [6] [7] and grew up in Davison. [3] [8] He was a member of the Class of 1960 at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, but he dropped out after his first year. [9]
But there was something else we did with no restriction: listen to music. That is, until 1984, when a group called the Parents Music Resource Center, led by high-profile Washington, D.C., women ...