From “The Devil's Interval” to “Louis Loui”: The Crazy Moment of Music – National

We all know that music is powerful and powerful. It affects our emotions, our spirits, our souls. It's exactly like scaring certain people about music.

They believe that music can be dangerous and needs to be carefully supervised, regulated and sometimes banned. moral? Humanity? What about some twisted political reasons? Check, check, check.

In many cases, moral police choose to blame messengers (music and musicians) rather than seeing why songs seem so resonant. However, they know that social and political change is often predicted by popular culture messages and movements. They hope that by blocking messages and restricting movement, they can stop or even turn it around.

Musical and moral police have been around for centuries. The word “censorship” was used to describe the Roman officials responsible for the census. Through the detours, he also had the task of monitoring public morality. For example, if you are found singing a “evil” song, it could be sleazy about the emperor, but the codes on the 12 tables passed in 450 BC stipulated that you will be killed by clubbing.

The Qin dynasty, which reigned in China about two or two hundred years ago, was largely limited to art and literature. The emperor declared the music as “vain” entertainment and ordered that all instruments and songbooks be destroyed.

It is said that the Roman Catholic Church was largely known as the “devil's spacing.” This is a particularly dissonant performance of the Devil's Diabolus of Music: The Devil's Three Notes of Music. Devil chords. It sounded evil, so it must be evil. Therefore, the use of this combination of notes was effectively prohibited from all Western European music. The notes were suppressed and evil emotions were avoided. There are no evil feelings or evil deeds.

Things have changed a little. Jimi Hendrix's purple haze opening code could have been burned by him a thousand years ago. Black Sabbath would have been branded as a witch and a demon. And if this was released by Blur in 1543, it would have been their death literally.

In fact, it has been revealed that the devil Tritone is not banned by the church, despite the myth still resonating.

1543 was the year that King Henry VIII banned the printing of sheet music because he could “subtle and cleverly guide the kings and young people of the realm.”

And the Nazis had problems with their music. During European occupation, Reich's garlitter for Nazi guardians in Bohemia and Moravia issued a 10-point statute regulating jazz performances.

I could read them, but instead I'll turn your attention to the songs of Canadian violinist Hugh Marsh. In 1987 he released an album entitled Shaking the Pumpkin. It featured a song called Broken Rules featuring Robert Palmer and Dalbello on vocals. Please listen.

So was the endless campaign to ban rock and roll when it was born in the 1950s. His parents, politicians, preachers, and even doctors were involved. A particular Dr. Francis Braceland, who worked as a psychiatrist at a Connecticut facility, states that rock music is “a form of cannibalism and tribalism music… a contagious illness… adolescent anxiety and teenagers are as attractive as doing something extraordinary.”

Famous classical cellist Pablo Casals is known as “Poison makes a sound.” Mitch Miller, the director of talent development at Columbia Records in the 1950s and early '60s, disliked rock music. He handed over Elvis, Buddy Holly, and an English group called “The Beatles.” I'm quoting from Miller. “Rock and roll is musical baby food. It's a mediocre worship and it was brought about by a passion for conformity.”

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Below is another example of music that was banned by a particular radio station. This censorship had nothing to do with the lyrics. Because it's an instrument. The station refused to play it just because it sounded dangerous.

But this is the best censorship story of the era. In 1963, the Garage Band in Portland, Oregon, was called Kingsman and created a record called Louis Rui. They had no money. All they could afford was a cheap studio and one overhead microphone hanging about 10 feet above the band.

Everyone had to be placed around that one microphone, including singer Joe Eli. He had to sing in his head the whole time. What complicates things was the fact that he had a big heavy brace on his teeth. It's no wonder no one can know what he's singing.

Before you go any further, listen to this and see if you can see what's going on.

Have you got any of it? Well, some politicians and parents thought they could. Rumors have begun to spread that the lyrics are incredibly dirty. It's unspeakable and dirty.

The Indiana Governor declared the song “ear stabbed” and imposed a statewide ban. Complaints from teachers, preachers and parents reached the U.S. Attorney General's office. FBI's J. Edgar Hoover was called to investigate.

People were asked. Recordings were subject to analysis. It played back and forth at various speeds. The investigation lasted for two years. And when the final FBI report was published on May 25, 1965, it was 118 pages. Conclusion? “'Louis Louis' can't understand any speed and is probably not indecent. probably. ”

Nothing bans songs as fast as sex. It has been for centuries. I was able to quote the lyrics of a blues song from the early 20th century. It's no wonder they didn't make it on the radio. And if you want to enjoy a little, google it with the phrase “jelly roll.” You'll start to understand why so many blues songs use that phrase.

In the 1950s, some cities banned jukeboxes. The Jukebox was clearly a demonic environment. And if you follow American laws exactly, you could be arrested for sending “indecent and sleepy” records through email. I think what constituted “indecent and perverted” relied on who was conducting the test.

From the 50s to the 80s, everyone from Chuckberry, the Rolling Stones to the Beatles, the door had problems with the Censorship Crusades. And one of the toughest was the British broadcasting company.

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Looking at BBC history may deprive you of the idea that they are one of the most tense broadcasters in the world. You may be right. In the mid-30s, the BBC banned jazz. In 1959 it banned Charlie Brown's song by coasters because it contained the offensive word “spitball.” No, really.

In January 1984, the producer of the BBC radio show went home to find the kids in front of Terry and watched a video of a song called Relax from this new band called Hollywood by the Frankie Goes.

It's not a big deal. He'd listened to the songs many times as the BBC added it to his daytime playlist. In fact, by this point the song had aired nearly 90 times. But until he saw the video, he made it happen – Gasp! -It was about homosexual sex.

The next day, on January 11, 1984, he got a job, and his boss, DJ Mike Read, explained what he had learned. Reading was a host of morning shows and had millions of listeners every day. After playing the song again, he saw the light too.

He branded the song Obscene and announced that he would never play it again. This puts the management in a strict place. Their biggest star caused this explosion. An attempt to counter the appearance of the worse. The next day, on January 12th, 1984, a memo appeared across the BBC. This declared that relaxation should never decorate the radio, radio and television under the gray.

There was only one exception. It's a weekly chart show. I don't understand that, but it was. You know what happened, right? A week later, the biggest song in all of England was Frankie's relaxing trip to Hollywood. It stayed in No. 1 for 5 weeks. Within less than a month, it sold 1 million copies and 13 million copies worldwide. Thank you, Mike read.

The BBC appears to have gained even more inspiring about music during the war. In 1982, Margaret Thatcher went to war with Argentina in the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It was a controversial war, considering the battle was on a bundle of rocks, home to more sheep and penguins than the people.

Anyway, the troops under Her were sent to retrieve these rocks. Approximately 1,000 people died, of which 255 became British soldiers.

During this time, the constantly sensitive BBC was on guard and confirmed that songs, important to the government, were not being played in the radio waves under Her. The song had nothing to do with the War, the Navy, or Argentina, but was deemed unplayable.

The BBC also banned anyone wanting to rule the world by tears due to fear during the first Gulf War. And during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the hot heat of Victoria banned bandages of songs. They thought the chorus would cause excessive stress to the relatives of soldiers fighting in the area.

Then, of course, there was 9/11. You may have heard of the infamous list of songs published by Clear Channel, a big radio conglomerate in the United States. This list existed, but it was not a list of banned songs. It included suggestions for songs that could cause problems for the audience during such a sensitive period.

For example, the document urged programmers to air the song under the title “Jet,” and set out for Elton John's Benny and Jets, Peter, Paul and Mary's jet planes and Steve Miller's jet airliner.

There were 165 songs on this list. This is totally confusing. Is the term “fly?” trigger?

This was a brief discussion of how music and censorship intersected. We can continue with days and days on this theme. The blow caused by the cure killing Arabs. Pollution on Malaysian pop and rock music.

As long as there is music, as long as there are people who are afraid of it, there is censorship.

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