publishes a newsletter with up-to-date information on censorship. Other anti-PMRC organizations include the National Association of Record Manufacturers (NARM), which called for self-regulation without interference (Gray 1989a:155, 1989b:11), and the Musical Majority, formed by Danny Goldberg, President of Gold Mountain Records, and the American Civil Liberties Union. The group opposed both the PMRC and the RIAA because of the rating and labeling system (Kelly 1985; Roldan 1987:230; Stoltz 1986). Support for the Musical majority came from managers, musicians, music publishers, members of the NARM. 2. The Secret Association Between Politics, Religion, Science, and Race The Politics of Culture The political affiliation "through marriage" of the PMRC is obvious. Yet, there are more direct political involvement in the censorship debate. For instance, Albert Gore sent a letter on the issue to one of the legal scholars commenting on the labeling system (letter from Gore to Coletti, dated April 18, 1986) and stated that "This is a consumer information issue - not a First Amendment issue." (Coletti 1987:423). Former U.S. President Reagan condemned the record industry for selling pornography (Coletti 1987:427). Shortly after the Senate Hearings, on October 9, 1985, Reagan stated that the music business was exposing children to a "glorification of drugs and violence and perversity" (cited in McDonald 1988a:304). In 1987, at a symposium organized by the PMRC, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Everett Koop stated that many music videos "are a combination of senseless violence and senseless pornography to the beat of rock music" (quoted in Gow 1990:2). Recently, the political targeting of music came to the foreground of discussion with the controversies surrounding Sister Souljah and Ice-T (see Jasper 1992; Bowman 1992). In an article in conservative maganize The New American, Sister Souljah is called "candidly racist and nihilistic" (Jasper 1992:41), and s...
