Parents Music Resource Center
Defunct American committee
Parents Music Resource Center
The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was a bipartisan United States government committee formed in 1985 with the stated goal of increasing parental control over children's access to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes. The committee's work led to the widespread adoption of the Parental Advisory sticker. The PMRC was known for its prejudicial targeting of rock and heavy metal music, which drew opposition and criticism. On political and religious grounds, the committee was supported by American televangelists, Reaganites, and the larger evangelical movement, who accused rock and heavy metal lyrics of harboring Satanic and occult related themes. The committee was founded by four women known as the "Washington Wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with government in the Washington, D.C. area. The women who founded the PMRC are Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore; Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker; Pam Howar...
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