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Publication Law Amendments Tighten Song Censorship

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    From: Taiwan Popular Music Wiki
    Date: July 21, 2015Author: Chiang Chia-jung

    In August 1973, in response to the proliferation of pop songs, the Government Information Office (GIO) established a special “Song Publications Guidance Working Group.” In November, the GIO took over the task of banning songs from the Garrison Command, assigning it to a Publications Review Subgroup to strictly vet and eliminate “undesirable” songs. Simultaneously, the GIO actively promoted a song-selection competition, hoping to encourage broad social participation in the creation of Mandarin popular songs — the origin of the song competition. From the 62nd year of the Republic to February 28 of the 68th year, a total of 438 songs with content in violation of relevant laws were banned, the vast majority of which were Mandarin songs. At the same time, a GIO interpretation of the Publications Act listed ten grounds for banning songs: “violating national policy,” “propaganda for the communist bandits,” “plagiarizing communist songs,” “despondent lyrics,” “absurd content,” “obscure and lascivious sentiment,” “frenzied and dissolute melody,” “violent and combative,” “erroneous reflection of the era,” “vulgar language,” “melancholic and sorrowful,” and “unclear and muddled text with insufficient ideological clarity.”

     

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