Music Lyrics & Violence

Books & Government Documents

• Use the following subject keywords to search the library's catalog.
• music censorship
• violence media
• Search the NHMCCD Online Catalog in library or on the web.

Periodical Articles

• Search an online database with a search statement such as: violence and music
• Search a database on campus or from home from the current topics database list.

Web Pages

• Eminem Protesters Few But Passionate from MTV Online - February 21, 2001
• FTC Releases Follow-Up Report on The Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children from the Federal Trade Commission - April 24, 2001 (see also the April, 2001 FTC full follow-up report on The Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children - NOTE: Adobe Acrobat file and the original September 2000 FTC press release and full report - NOTE: Adobe Acrobat file)
• Gay rights group says Eminem lyrics could lead to violence, even deaths from The Detroit News - June 15, 2000
• Impact of Music Lyrics and Music Videos on Children and Youth from the American Academy of Pediatrics - December 1996
• Music, Violence, and the RIAA from Wired News - May 3, 1999
• Recording Industry of America (RIAA)/Freedom of Speech-What We Are Doing - 1999?
• Rock & Roll: Does it influence teens’ behavior? from the Stanford (University) Report Online - November 12, 1997