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]