Week 5: Procedural Democracy

I had no idea that there was any type of procedural democracy, it's interesting to see that it focuses on the different foundations of democracy. As mentioned in the reading, "procedural democracy focuses on the foundations of democracy-voting, a free press, free speech, and freedom of assembly (web lecture-Democracy & Dialogue). I may be headed another direction here, but this reminded me of a paper that I worked on some time ago. My research paper was focused on freedom of speech, and I focused it on rap music. Rap music has had it's dilemmas in the past because of it's explicit lyrics. There were many people, including women, who believe that the lyrics in the music was offensive. In many occasions the artist who made these records, for example Ice T, 2 Live Crew, who got lashed by the media. In there defence, they claimed that this was their music, they also claimed that it was their right to freedom of speech. I do believe that rap music has very explicit lyrics, and in many occasions I have felt offended by what is said about females, but I also think that these artist have the right to freedom of speech. They are artist, and in many occasions they base their music on true events that they have been through in life. The only thing that I mentioned in this is if somebody does not like what they are listening to, then they should turn it off.