November 21, 2021
Sound Grammar
by Jeffrey St. Clair
Tipper Gore inveighing against obscene music during a congressional hearing in 1987.
The Gores and PMRC were prudent about one sector of the recording industry, headquartered in their occasional home port of Tennessee. Country music, despite its obsession with despair, drinking, adultery, suicide, and revenge, was spared their scrutiny.
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