ch benefactor of royalty would pay a composer to create musical works. Music was deliberately created to the tastes and interests of the patrons-if the patron did not enjoy a theme or style the composer simply would not be able to create and perform the music as easily" (www.ericnuzum.com)
             Now of course the music industry is a lot different, but the censorship still remains. Of course artists don't write their music to be liked by everyone, just their target audience. This is where censorship comes into day-to-day life. If I like rap and you don't, you don't want to listen to it, thus you are censoring the music you listen to. And that is how I think it should be, for adults that is, children should not be aloud to listen to whatever they want, it is for their parents to decide. It is your own personal choice to listen to the music you like, not the government or other organizations.
             The most prominent of these organizations is the PMRC, the Parents Music Resource Center. This Organization was formed in Washington D.C. in the mid-1980's by Tipper Gore, the wife on the Vice President, and Susan Baker. The PMRC's primary focus was getting record companies to monitor and rate their artist's releases with a system similar to that of the MPAA system for monitoring movies. Due in a large part to pressure created from groups like the PMRC, the Recording Industry Association of Am
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