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This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America by Ryan Grim

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West Coast hip-hop was one, especially for nonurban youth sufficiently removed from the music’s lyrical concerns to find them seductively exotic. The Chronic, Los Angeles-area rapper Dr. Dre’s 1992 solo debut, announced its drug policy right on the CD: a symmetrical green pot leaf on a simple black background. Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource Center might have lamented the misogyny and violence threaded throughout the work of Dre’s old group, N.W.A., but the suburban and rural kids who helped make his solo effort a triple-platinum hit discovered something infinitely more interesting: the chronic itself. With a heavy influence from pothead George Clinton, the album glorified the gangsta lifestyle.

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I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum

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Steven Levy, writing in Rolling Stone, unfavorably compared “superficial, easy-to-swallow” acts such as Adam Ant to Bob Dylan. To bolster his accusation that “heavy-metal pounding” videos were dangerously violent, he quoted Dr. Thomas Radecki, chairman of the right-wing National Coalition on TV Violence, who a year later testified to Congress on behalf of the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) and served on their board of directors. (Radecki also routinely claimed that Dungeons & Dragons was “causing young men to kill themselves and others.” His reign at NCTV lasted until 1992, when his medical license was revoked for “engaging in immoral conduct” with a patient.) MTV, Levy wrote, “makes the musical energy and optimism of the Sixties seem a thousand light-years ago.”

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On another occasion, Gore and her six year old saw Tom Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More” video—some other parent, having gone through the “Hot for Teacher” incident, might have learned a lesson and banished MTV from the home—and the girl was “disturbed,” Gore said, “because the last scene showed [an actress] turning into a cake and being sliced up.” Gore and her friends formed the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), and for a few months they wrote articles and gave interviews denouncing what they called “porno rock.” In September 1985, Senator John Danforth, also married to a PMRC member, convened a congressional hearing to discuss the excesses of rock music in the age of cable TV. And that is how the Commerce Committee of the 99th Congress of the United States, like millions of other Americans, watched “Hot for Teacher” and Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going to Take It” when they should have been working.

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Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi

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The “Dungeons and Dragons” terror of the early eighties was an example. Some of us are old enough to remember the absurd scare flick Mazes and Monsters, starring an early version of America’s most dependable moral-panic frontman, Tom Hanks. Often the panic came hand in hand with a ready legal solution. Tipper Gore’s “Parents Music Resource Center” freakout over heavy metal lyrics was an eighties re-hash of Mod-Rocker fear. The solution, thankfully, was tame: warning labels. The same craze today would likely result in a Heritage Foundation council working with iTunes to secretly remove morally threatening music. Reporters were always allowed tons of leeway when investigating moral panics.

The America That Reagan Built by J. David Woodard

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By the mid-1980s, African American artists dominated the Top Ten music list. Lionel Richie, Tina Turner, Rick James, Billy Ocean, and Stevie Wonder all had number one hits in 1984. The most flamboyant artist of the time was Prince Rogers Nelson, whose shocking lyrics on the album Dirty Mind (1980) led Tipper Gore to form the Parents Music Resource Center in 1984 to protest sexually explicit lyrics. That protest would eventually result in ‘‘Parental Advisory’’ labels on album covers. Prince’s flamboyant style led to questions about his personal life, especially if he was gay or bisexual. His response was classically postmodern: ‘‘Who cares?’’

How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

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Murmuring that your lover’s looks, earning power, and IQ meet your minimal standards would probably kill the romantic mood, even though the statement is statistically true. The way to a person’s heart is to declare the opposite—that you’re in love because you can’t help it. Tipper Gore’s Parents’ Music Resource Center notwithstanding, the sneering, body-pierced, guitar-smashing rock musician is typically not singing about drugs, sex, or Satan. He is singing about love. He is courting a woman by calling attention to the irrationality, uncontrollability, and physiological costs of his desire. I want you so bad, it’s driving me mad, Can’t eat, can’t sleep, Heart beats like a big bass drum, You’re the only one, Don’t know why I love you like I do, You drive me crazy, Can’t stop lovin’ you, Ain’t nobody can do it to me the way you can, I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk, et cetera, et cetera.