Pop Music That Fucks: An Oral History of Outrage (Part One and Two)

Tipper Gore and members of the PMRC sit before the senate "rock porn" hearings in 1985.

Part 1 Links:

  • Kim Petras Defends Sam Smith Against ‘I’m Not Here to Make Friends’ Music Video Backlash (Exclusive) [ET]
  • The Christian Right Is Having a Meltdown Over the ‘Satanic’ Grammys [Vice]
  • Did We Really Need a Satan Bondage Show at the Grammys? [TheDailyBeast]
  • Link to Smokestack Lightning by Howlin Wolf, Life (1964)
  • The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967, Amy Absher [PDF]
  • Why they tried to censor the blues [Louder Sound]
  • SEX AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT: THE LONG AND WINDING HISTORY OF OBSCENITY LAW Geoffrey R. Stone, First Amendment Law Review (2019) [WordPress]
  • The Pop Life; IS PRINCE LEADING MUSIC TO A TRUE BIRACISM? (Dec 2, 1981) [NYT]
  • WHY THESE POP SINGERS HAVE RISEN TO SUPERSTARDOM (Sep 2, 1984) [NYT]
  • Birth of the PMRC, Claude Chastanger [HAL Science PDF]
  • Notes from: Record Labeling: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Contents of Music and the Lyrics of Records, September 19, 1985[University of California Riverside
  • Zappa Defends Obscene Lyrics (Nov 6, 1985) [The Harvard Crimson]
  • Discord on Record Warning (August 29, 1985) [Washington Post]
  • UNREST IN THE PURPLE KINGDOM (April 12, 1987) [Washington Post]
  • Bloom and Doom: ‘The Closing of the American Mind’ [Oct 8, 1987) [Rolling Stone]
  • [Prager U Video] (Start at 1:05)

Part 2 Links: 

  • LYRICS PANNED : EVANGELIST SEES SATAN IN ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (April 6, 1987) [LA Times]
  • Subliminal messages: Between the devil and the media. [APA PsycNet]
  • Mr. Ed Theme Conveys Satanic Message, Evangelist Say (April 24, 1986) [AP News]
  • The Devil’s Music (Aug 23, 1985) [Washington Post]
  • Suicides Blamed on Music’s Satanic Spell (March 18, 1988) [Christianity Today]
  • THE DEVIL, YOU SAY? NO WAY : AC/DC’s Message: Rebellion, Not Satan Worship (Sep 8, 1985) [LA Times]
  • CAN MUSIC CORRUPT? The battle lines are drawn over whether heavy metal’s raucous lyrics really endanger teens (Jan 10, 1989) [CS Monitor]
  • PEPSI DROPS MADONNA ‘PRAYER’ ADS (April 4, 1989) [Washington Post]
  • It’s Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic [NYT]
  • 20/20: The Devil Worshippers [1985] [Youtube]
  • Occult Criminal Investigation: Reference Material, Michigan State Police Child Abuse Unit, Criminal Investigation Division (Nov 1988) [GVSU.EDU]
  • Witness Of Fire (Dec 3, 1980) [Washington Post]
  • Styx calls probe of satanic rock messages rubbish (May 2, 1982) [UPI]
  • The Fight to Save America From Satan’s Subliminal Rock Messages [Atlas Obscura]
  • PROCTER & GAMBLE FIGHTS SATAN STORY (April, 18, 1985) [NYT]
  • SERIOUS ISSUES UNDERLIE A NEW ALBUM FROM STYX [March 27, 1985] [NYT]
  • The Real Origins of the Religious Right [Politico]

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