You can't play that on the radio! Songs once thought of as scandolous, now seem tame. Gene Vincent's "Race With the Devil" and Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" come to mind. Censorship is as old as popular music itself. On this edition of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen talks with Peter Blecha, author of Taboo Tunes: A History of Banned Bands & Censored Songs about the power of music and the authorities who seek to control it.
