
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


In part 2 of our 4-part series, we talk about moral panics in music history. Some will seem quaint to our modern ears, while others are a bit more recent. From jaunty tunes interfering with factory work in the 1940s to rock artists in the 1980s defending their lyrics in congressional hearings, we look at a long history of how parent's just don't understand their kids' music. And what does the future hold in terms of musical panics? Can we even begin to predict that, when one of the key features of living through a moral panic is the uncertainty of whether something is, in fact, a moral panic?
By Ben Radford, Celestia Ward and Pascual Romero4.8
9191 ratings
In part 2 of our 4-part series, we talk about moral panics in music history. Some will seem quaint to our modern ears, while others are a bit more recent. From jaunty tunes interfering with factory work in the 1940s to rock artists in the 1980s defending their lyrics in congressional hearings, we look at a long history of how parent's just don't understand their kids' music. And what does the future hold in terms of musical panics? Can we even begin to predict that, when one of the key features of living through a moral panic is the uncertainty of whether something is, in fact, a moral panic?

4,043 Listeners

2,666 Listeners

113 Listeners

3,210 Listeners

435 Listeners

1,433 Listeners

2,861 Listeners

2,597 Listeners

1,990 Listeners

2,662 Listeners

13 Listeners

238 Listeners

1,191 Listeners

269 Listeners

790 Listeners