Governing Censorship

This episode started out as solely Banned Books week themed. As it happens, it got out of hand. So instead, here’s a social science take on the censorship, banning, restriction and outright prohibition of works of art and speech. From Stan Cohen to Michel Foucault, we offer a few frameworks and examples to help make sense of how we govern censorship. Music abounds in this one. Fitting to play songs that some folks fought for us never to hear again.

Links to audio clips in this episode:

• Salt-N-Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydrtF45-y-g
• Toby Keith - Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc
• Dixie Chicks - Travelin' Soldier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbfgxznPmZM
• Dixie Chicks, London 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo3EaMtxqBo
• Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI
• Dixie Chicks - Tonight The Heartache’s On Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDG6A4JolEw

Concluding thought:  Any book worth banning is a book worth reading

― Isaac Asimov

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• Intro Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Outro Music: Song "Liberty and Freedom” on the album “Let the Dominoes Fall” by Rancid.