The first article "Building a Better PIG: A Historical Survey of the PMRC and it's tactics," is about the history of censorship of various types of music by the Parents Music Resource Center. The article states that Mary Elizabeth Gore purchased a copy of Prince's, "Purple Rain" for her daughter and was extremely upset when she heard the explicit lyrics describing sexual activities. This enraged her enough that she and her friend, Susan Baker, created The Parents Music Resource Center whose main job was to scrutinize the music that children listened to and control that medium.
The second article, "The Diaspora Of West Africa: The Influence Of West African Cultures On 'Jody Calls' In The United States Military," is about how marching cadences used by the United States Military, when studied throughout history, has evolved from the slave songs and the music of pre-colonial West Africa. This article describes the six elements that explain this evolution: call and response songs, cadences that focus on the voice, a percussive backbeat to create energy, functionality in nature, focus on the experiences of daily living, and a long oral history.
In all honesty I do not see how these two articles are very similar at all. However, there differences are abundant. One article, "Building a Better PIG: A Historical Survey of the PMRC and it's tactics," describes the history of an organization and how it got started by Al Gore's wife, Mary Elizabeth. The second, "The Diaspora Of West Africa: The Influence Of West African Cultures On 'Jody Calls' In The United States Military," is about the origin of Military calls and cadences and how they have evolved since their first introduction into the United States Military. They also differ because one is a just a basic history and the second is an actual study of how West African Culture influences.
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