This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
by Ryan Grim · 7 Jul 2009 · 334pp · 93,162 words
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
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Owen, Frank OxyContin Paciello, Chris Page, Larry Palin, Sarah Panama Panic of 1837 Parenti, Christian parenting codependency movement and “hyper-parenting” and teenage drug use Parents Music Resource Center Parke-Davis Company Parry, Robert Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) patent-medicine industry Paulus, Martin Pelosi, Nancy “perceived availabiliy,” “perceived risk,” Percocet Peredo
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
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
Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by Matt Taibbi · 7 Oct 2019 · 357pp · 99,456 words
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
The America That Reagan Built
by J. David Woodard · 15 Mar 2006
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
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum · 19 Sep 2011 · 821pp · 227,742 words
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
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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
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