[Continuing from Part 1:]
Case in point, the PMRC: Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center, an informal committee of mostly Senator's wives, was relatively innocuous in the early eighties; but by nineteen ninety they succeeded in paving the way toward musical blacklisting by coercing the music industry into labeling records containing allegedly risque' or offensive lyrics or cover art.
If not for certain self-righteous Congressmen and the cowardice of music industry executives, the PMRC likely would never have succeeded in imposing censorship on musicians, the record industry, and music buyers. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and later as part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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