There's something quietly remarkable about a song being forbidden by a government and then, years or decades later, becoming ...

It’s natural for human beings to fear what they don’t understand or what threatens their livelihoods. It’s a survival instinct to distance oneself from poisonous mushrooms, stay away from lions, or ...

Many people believe that to be a great artist is to push the envelope. The testing of norms happens in all art forms but it's most striking in music, arguably the purest and most accessible form of ...

Did you ever hear that Frank Zappa quote "If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?" Quite a point, right? Back in 1985, he and a bunch of other musicians took a firm stance ...

Here below, we wanted to examine three instances when some thought certain songs went too far. These are a trio of tracks from the 2000s that earned pushback from the powers that be. Indeed, these are ...

The modern day country music fan is quite a bit more tolerant of edgy or controversial songs than fans were 30 or 40 years ago, and as a result, there are fewer banned country songs today. Blame it on ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — It is a soulful folk song, filled with feeling and history: A love-stricken young man tells God about his hopes and dreams of happiness. Generations of Uyghurs, the Turkic ethnic ...

When people think of Christmas music, they don’t think of provocative songs. Despite this, the BBC nearly banned a famous Christmas song even though nobody would consider it controversial today. The ...

Authorities in China’s Xinjiang region are threatening detention over downloading, sharing or listening to a wide range of Uyghur-language songs, the AP has found. The policy was revealed in a leaked ...

Authorities in China’s Xinjiang region are threatening detention over downloading, sharing or listening to a wide range of Uyghur-language songs, the AP has found. The policy was revealed in a leaked ...