WAUEM_2025002.xml Peter Blecha Taboo Tunes collection Blecha (Peter) Taboo Tunes collection Ethnomusicology Archives 2025 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-10-22. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Ethnomusicology Archives Peter Blecha Taboo Tunes collection Blecha, Peter 2025002 1.53 cubic feet 2 boxes, 2 oversized folders 1915-2010 Collection of research, sheet music, posters and other ephemera on controversial music from the 1960s-2010s English .

Research materials and 14 posters related to banned music collected by Peter Blecha. Galley copy of Taboo Tunes.

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Peter Charles Blecha is an American historian, curator, essayist, author, musician, and director of the Seattle-based Northwest Music Archives. He is primarily known for research related to aspects of Pacific Northwest musical history. He is the author of Taboo Tunes and Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll, as well as a weekly column in the Seattle music magazine The Rocket, essays, and album liner notes. Blecha has also served in multiple consulting and curatorial positions for the Stone Age Institute Advisory Board, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Excellence in Publication Committee, the Northwest African American Museum Advisory Committee, and Design and Development teams for the Museum of Pop Culture {MoPOP).

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Donated by Peter Blecha.

 Series 1, Research Files

Clippings and website printouts of articles arranged by subject matter

 9/11 2001-2004 2025002 Box 1 Ancient and Classical Music 1992-2000 2025002 Box 1 Anti-[George W.] Bush 2004 2025002 Box 1 [George W.] Bush 2001-2005 2025002 Box 1 Clinton 1996 2025002 Box 1 Censorship 1966-2003 2025002 Box 1 Censored Songs 1997-2010 2025002 Box 1 CCC (Clear Channel) 2001-2004 2025002 Box 1 "Cop Killer" 1992-2000 2025002 Box 1 Dixie Chicks 2003-2006 2025002 Box 1 "Drug" Songs 1996-2004 2025002 Box 1 Elvis 1995-2003 2025002 Box 1 Eminem 2000-2003 2025002 Box 1 FOIA Request: "Louie Louie" 2003 2025002 Box 1 FBI 2000-2004 2025002 Box 1 FCC & FTC 2000-2005 2025002 Box 1 Folk Music 2003-2009 2025002 Box 1 Heavy Metal, etc. 1988-2004 2025002 Box 1 Hip Hop 1990-2005 2025002 Box 1 Homophobia 2002-2006 2025002 Box 1 International 1992-2007 2025002 Box 1 IP Infringement 2001-2004 2025002 Box 1 Iraq War 2002-2005 2025002 Box 1 Marilyn Manson 2001 2025002 Box 1 National 1959-2003 2025002 Box 1 Negativland 1996-1998 2025002 Box 1 Payola 2005 2025002 Box 1 PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) 1985-2000 2025002 Box 1 Racist 1963-2003 2025002 Box 1 Raves 2001 2025002 Box 1 Satanic 1983-2001 2025002 Box 1 "Science" 2001-2006 2025002 Box 1 Sex 1990-2005 2025002 Box 1 Violence 1979-2003 2025002 Box 1 Wal-Mart 1996-2001 2025002 Box 1 War on Terror 2004-2006 2025002 Box 1 Series 2, Magazines, Comics, Ephemera "Rock & Rap Confidential" newsletters 2003-2006 2025002 Box 1 Rock n' Roll Comics: "NWA and Ice Cube" and "Public Enemy/2 Live Crew" 1990-1991 2025002 Box 1 Zapp Magazine 2004 2025002 Box 1 Magnet Magazine 2004 2025002 Box 1 Signal to Noise Magazine 2004 2025002 Box 1 Banned in England pamphlet 1932 2025002 Box 1 Under the Radar Magazine 2008 2025002 Box 1 Miscellaneous undated 2025002 Box 1

Headshot of Tipper Gore

 Rolling Stone ad 1976 2025002 OSVF 1 B-52s Satirical ad 2025002 OSVF 1 Series 3, Sheet Music "All the Quakers are Shoulder Shakers (Down in Quaker Town)" by Bert Kalmar and Edgar Leslie/Pete Wendling 1919 2025002 OSVF 1 "That Naughty Waltz" by Edwin Stanley/Sol. P. Levy 1920 2025002 OSVF 1 "(Little Lilly Drives them Silly) with her 'Cuckoo'" by Pat Ballard/Sam Gold 1921 2025002 OSVF 1 "There is a Tavern in the Town" by William H. Hills 1929 2025002 OSVF 1 "Little Brown Jug" by Eastburn 1941 2025002 OSVF 1 "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!!" by Frank Loesser 1942 2025002 OSVF 1 "Rum and Coca-Cola" by Morey Amsterdam/Jeri Sullavan, Paul Baron 1944 2025002 OSVF 1 "Goodnight, Irene" by Huddie Ledbetter and John Lomax 1926 2025002 OSVF 1 "Banned in Boston" by Clint Ballard and Fred Tobias 1961 2025002 OSVF 1 "What'd I Say" by Ray Charles 1959 2025002 OSVF 1 "Get Together" by Chet Powers 1963 2025002 OSVF 1 "Puff (the Magic Dragon" by Peter Yarrow and Leonard Lipton 1963 2025002 OSVF 1 "Eve of Destruction" by P.F. Sloan 1965 2025002 OSVF 1 "Now Tango (l'Irresstible)" 1915 2025002 OSVF 1 "I Didn't Raise my Boy to be a Soldier" by Alfred Bryan/Al Piantadosi 1915 2025002 OSVF 1 "Anti Rag-Time Girl Song" by Elsie Janis 1913 2025002 OSVF 1 Series 4, Posters Amen: We have come for your parents 2000 2025002 OS 2 Kid Rock: Devil Without a Cause 2025002 OS 2 The Black Crowes: Amorica 2025002 OS 2 Madonna: Borderline 2025002 OS 2 Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mother's Milk 1989 2025002 OS 2 Ice Cube: Death certificate 2025002 OS 2 Ice-T: The Iceberg : freedom of speech ... just watch what you say 1991 2025002 OS 2 Heavy Cream 1972 2025002 OS 2 The Luke featuring 2-Live Crew: Banned in the U.S.A. 2025002 OS 2 Public Enemy: Muse sick-n-hour mess age : what side you on 1994 2025002 OS 2 Frankenchrist 2025002 OS 2 Taboo Tunes : a history of banned bands & censored songs 2025002 OS 2 The Sam The Sham Revue: Nothing Succeeds like Suppression 2025002 OS 2 Series 5, Vinyl Records Alice Cooper: Love it to death 1971 2025002 Box 2

Album sleeve only

 Carcass: Reek of Putrefaction 1988 2025002 Box 2

Album sleeve only

 The Beatles: Yesterday and Today 1966 2025002 Box 2

Album sleeve only