Music and Sensorship
Throughout history, the emotions of people have shown themselves in a variety of forms. Some of the people chose the medium of music to express their emotions and ideas. Music somehow became useless for some people, while music was still spreading across the world. But this work offended some people who were in the need of authority; these people tried to control the music created by the artists. This control of the music is in the form of censorship, and censurers used their political, economical power to control the musicians who earn their life by means of music. This censorship is an attack on a person’s freedom; this is a direct attack on emotions and freethinking. In addition, this also limits the freedom of people to listen to what they want to listen to. Censorship of the music is as old as the history of the music. Until the last hundred years, western culture music’s principal aim was appeasing royalty and the wealthy, if these groups do not like the music it is simply altered. As an example, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “La Traviata” was changed numerous times because some of the lyrics were considered “too passionate” by citizens of Rome. But the real rise of censorship in music was with the rise of rock and rol
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Approximate Word count = 3071
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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