Stumbled into interesting, and at times surreal, footage of Frank Zappa on CNN Crossfire where he debates free speech & censorship as it applies to music lyrics.
Wikipedia has more to say on the subject, indicating that these appearances were part of a larger debate started by the Parents Music Resource Center in their campaign to create a rating system for music similar to that used by the MPAA. The result was a little different than they hoped, but now CDs with explicit lyrics do carry a relevant generic label we’ve all seen.
Check the two appearances out below - well worth watching if only for Zappa’s arguments:
Anthony Volodkin
Taylor McKnight
Zoya Feldman
Scott Kidder
John Schimmel
I wonder where you found that
February 1, 2007 @ 1:13 am
Gots to love the Zap! Nice find, thanks for posting the videos.
February 1, 2007 @ 2:45 pm
saw the crossfire thing before. didn’t see the cnn.
the fascist theocracy stuff seems especially pertinent.
thanks for the post
February 5, 2007 @ 4:39 pm