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Countries:

Brazil:

America:

"Efforts to censor speech during World War II centered around the Smith Act of 1940, which established severe penalties for anyone who advocated the overthrow of the government by force or violence. Following World War II, the Cold War and McCarthyism led to the passage of the McCarran or Communist Control Act of 1954 over President Harry Truman’s veto, censoring freedom of association by making membership in the Communist Party illegal. During the 1960s, there was an unusual amount of tolerance for free speech that encompassed civil rights, women’s rights, the anti-war effort, and student protests. As might be expected, a conservative backlash followed in the 1980s with the election of Ronald Reagan. The religious right launched an all-out effort to censor books, art, web sites, movies, signs, and television programming." (Purdy pg 4)

"The abortion issue provides an excellent example of what happens when conservatives attempt to limit speech/action with which they disagree. The Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations became so successful in censoring even the use of the word abortion that Congress passed a law banning the use of the word in clinics that received Title X funds. In 1991, in Rust v. Sullivan (500 U.S. 173), the conservative court upheld this limitation on the speech of medical and family planning personnel. President Bill Clinton overturned the case with an executive order, and Congress turned his actions into federal law. Even though liberals dislike censorship on principle, some limits may be acceptable. In Schenck v. United States (249 U.S. 47, 1919), Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes identified what has become the classic acceptable infringement on free speech: “the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” Many liberals also favor censorship of pornography on the grounds that it is harmful and likely to incite violent actions against women and children and hate speech because it infringes on human dignity." (Purdy pg 5-6)

Sources for this section:

Censorship—Brazil. ABC-CLIO, 2005, http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/abcibamrle/censorship_brazil/0.

Politics:

"To support their attempt to establish an aestheticized political order...institutionalisation and language." (Geisler pg 78-79) Talks about Nazi regime and Hitler's association with music (and in general) art censorship.

Sources for this section:

Geisler, Ursula. “Political Music Censorship: Some Remarks on Nazi Music Regulations 1931945.” Danish Musicology Online, no. Special, 2015.

Depending on which country it is based on is where you will write the information.

Note: (For example, politics about America would go under America(s) section.)

To Add To Talk Page (AFTER EDITS TO ARTICLE!):

Upon researching more about the topic of music censorship, I have noted that there was no information on any of the repression during different points in history. For example, some information was found on some of the censorship of art that occurred during WWII under the Nazi regime. A lot of the music censorship was a direct result of racism and hatred towards Judaism, therefore I felt that it should have been mentioned in the article.

There was also more information that I had found regarding censorship specifically in the country of North America. Once more, it discusses the time during WWII in which art was repressed from the public under the regime, and also about how the act directly conflicts with the country’s first amendment. The article does not mention anything of the Smith Act of 1940 and how some symbols are expressed through the music in order to spread different beliefs to the public. Because of this, I also felt that it deserved to have been noted.

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