Contents

• "Let me count the ways": censoring rock ‘n’ rap music / Betty Houchin Winfield
• From Fine romance to Good rockin’, and beyond: Look what they’ve done to my song / Michael J. Budds
• Because of the children: decades of attempted controls of rock ‘n’ rap music / Betty Houchin Winfield
• Two perspectives on Ice-T: "Can’t touch me": musical messages and incitement law / Sandra Davidson
• The politics of aesthetic response: cultural conservatism, the NEA, and Ice-T / David Slayden
• Stern stuff: here comes the FCC / Sandra Davidson
• Music lyrics: as censored as they wanna be / Jeffrey L.L. Stein
• "Let’s spend the night together," Uhhh, "Some time together," Making rock acceptable: "The Ed Sullivan Show" / Stephen H. Wheeler
• Rolling Stone’s response to attempted censorship of rock ‘n’ roll / Lindsey R. Fore
• Deconstructing the hip-hop hype: a critical analysis of the New York Times’ coverage of African-American youth culture / Patrick B. Hill