Parents Music Resource Center

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Parents Music Resource Center

American committee

Also known as: PMRC

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Recording Industry Association of America
History
…watchdog groups such as the Parents Music Resource Center (led by Tipper Gore), agreeing to establish a program to label records that feature obscene or offensive content and to list record lyrics on the record sleeve. In the late 1980s and 1990s, the RIAA established additional technical standards to prevent…
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…watchdog groups such as the Parents Music Resource Center (led by Tipper Gore), agreeing to establish a program to label records that feature obscene or offensive content and to list record lyrics on the record sleeve. In the late 1980s and 1990s, the RIAA established additional technical standards to prevent…
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Frank Zappa
Political activism and influence
…Congress against censorship at the Parents’ Music Resource Center (PMRC) hearings in 1985 in Washington, D.C. (The PMRC was founded in 1984 by four Washington-based women with political ties who lobbied to impose stronger parental controls over content in songs, albums, and music videos. The group’s activism resulted in warning…
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…Congress against censorship at the Parents’ Music Resource Center (PMRC) hearings in 1985 in Washington, D.C. (The PMRC was founded in 1984 by four Washington-based women with political ties who lobbied to impose stronger parental controls over content in songs, albums, and music videos. The group’s activism resulted in warning…
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