“Black Betty,” a 1977 rock song used to rally fans at University of New Hampshire ice hockey games for perhaps a decade, is no more. Athletic Director Marty Scarano told the campus newspaper, The New Hampshire, that the rollicking song by the band Ram Jam was banned because it is “theoretically racist.”

Reasons for why music may be censored include that music is deemed contentious, aggressive or disrespectful. Music censorship therefore aims to minimize the exposure to controversial topics such as sex, drugs and the challenging of social norms.

noun. , Older Use. blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.