Claudia Christian - Narration

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music, pulsating rhythms and central passions may have written the soundtrack of the sexual revolution, but every revelation and shattered taboo has been accompanied by cries of obscenity, profanity and immorality. From courtrooms to concert hose, artists and angry citizens continue to sound off over the message behind the music. And who is the real culprit when it comes to stripping down and selling sex now on from the waist down men, women and music taking it off versus toning it down the complex menage a **** between sex marketing and censorship music, more than any other medium, has been the target of vicious racism. Vocal protest suppression and censorship songs have always revealed are most candid thoughts about love, life and the opposite sex. But today, with Eminem spewing a catchy blend of hip hop homophobia and Marilyn Manson crafting apocalyptic nightmares, some people claim that the content of music has reached an unprecedented level of depravity. From the moment Black R and B music emerged from the blues drenched deltas of the Deep South in the 19 fifties, authorities were convinced that rock n roll's unbridled emotion and primal be would send white teenagers into a sexual frenzy early opposition to rock n roll was rooted in America's deeply entrenched racism. Record executives searched desperately for ways to circumvent the racial tension. Wholesome scenes of smiling white teenagers often replaced photographs of black artists on their own album covers. Later, white artists like Pat Boone employed a primitive form of sexual censorship, re recording cleaned up versions of Black R and B hits. Many black artists fought back, using the art of double on Tonda as a means to dance slyly around taboo subjects. Songs like The Twist by Chubby checker, Chuck Berry's My Ding a Ling and 60 Minute Man by Billy Warden Dominos all referred to sex in a roundabout but unmistakable way. Music's enduring sexuality has proven to be a difficult flame to extinguish. As we steam forward into the 21st century, music continues to educate, to titillate and to expand the boundaries of our existence.