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Meyer, Randy – School Library Journal, 1996
Discusses a Kansas court case that addressed First Amendment rights of students when a book was banned from a school library. Topics include motivation of school board members, students' rights to information versus denial of access to ideas, viewpoint discrimination, and educational suitability. A sidebar presents viewpoints of the book's author.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Boards of Education, Books
Volz, Edward J. – School Library Journal, 1991
Discussion of music censorship provides a chronology of banned music from 1850 to the present. Highlights include reasons for music censorship, including lyrics that concern politics, sex, drugs, or death; rewriting song lyrics; radio air play versus sales; warning labels; First Amendment principles; and suggestions to defuse censorship in…
Descriptors: Audiodisks, Audiotape Recordings, Censorship, Library Administration