caa a22 4500 388113022 CHVBK 20180307125358.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S026114300000903X doi S026114300000903X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S026114300000903X Chastagner Claude The Parents' Music Resource Center: from information to censorship [Elektronische Daten] [Claude Chastagner] My purpose in this paper is to recount the history of the Parents' Music Resource Center, an American organisation founded in 1985 whose main concern has been to denounce the obscenity and violence of rock music on the grounds that it is partly responsible for the numerous ills that plague the United States. The PMRC claimed that it only wished to inform the public but my suggestion here is that the actions of the organisation resulted in a de facto censorship of popular music. I shall accordingly describe the various steps of the process that led from information to censorship as well as probe the deeper reasons that may have motivated the action of the Center. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Popular Music Cambridge University Press 18/2(1999-05), 179-192 0261-1430 18:2<179 1999 18 PMU https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114300000903X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114300000903X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chastagner Claude NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Popular Music Cambridge University Press 18/2(1999-05), 179-192 0261-1430 18:2<179 1999 18 PMU CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 222687746 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge