Musician

 What's Your Censorship IQ?
 * Musician **
 * Task 1: ** Take the censorship quiz at the following site. Write down your score on your response sheet.

Wal-Mart Music Content Policy 1. What is Wal-Mart's policy for a music CD that has a Parent Advisory Label? 2. Why would an artist "edit" his or her music for Wal-Mart?
 * Task 2: ** Visit the websites below and answer the questions that follow on your response sheet.

Green Day Lashes Out at Wal-Mart Policy 3. Provide two reasons why Green Day's //21st Century Breakdown// will not be sold at Wal-Mart stores. 4. Summarize Armstrong's comments at the end of the article.

Colorado Disc Jockey's Suspended for Protesting Dixie Chicks' Ban 5. Why did radio stations stop playing the Dixie Chicks in 2003? 6. Summarize Bruce Springstein's comments at the end of this article.

Music Censorship--A Timeline 7. How and why was rock and roll censored in the 1950s? 8. What determines if something is obscene according to the Miller v. California court decision?

9. (This question applies to all of the websites above). If your band expresses its frustrations with society in its music and uses obscenities to capture that anger, would you edit your own music so it could be more easily sold to the masses? Why or why not?