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> When recorded music was invented, musicians protested > we got the synthesizer. Again we got the same complaints I honestly don't believe this happened. Cit

> When recorded music was invented, musicians protested > we got the synthesizer. Again we got the same complaints I honestly don't believe this happened. Citations? You make it sound like one day there was no recording and then bam! flac quality recordings of musicians, out of the blue. You do realize it started with exceedingly shitty wax cylinders that sounded absolutely atrocious by today standards (and by the past standards as well)

z7 3y ago
Not the parent but here's one article: >After the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, all bets were off for live musicians who played in movie theaters. Thanks to synchronized sound, the use of live musicians was unnecessary — and perhaps a larger sin, old-fashioned. In 1930 the American Federation of Musicians formed a new organization called the Music Defense League and launched a scathing ad campaign to fight the advance of this terrible menace known as recorded sound. >The Music Defense League spent over $500,000, running ads in newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. The ads pleaded with the public to demand humans play their music (be it in movie or stage theaters), rather than some cold, unseen machine. >Joseph N. Weber, the president of the American Federation of Musicians, made it clear in the March, 1931 issue of Modern Mechanix magazine that the very soul of art was at stake in this battle against the machines. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-against-evil-robots-92702721/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...
- GeoAtreides 3y ago
  well: > live musicians who played in movie theaters and it wasn't about recorded music, but mechanical pianos
  - z7 3y ago
    No, it was about recorded music, as the article says. The movie made use of the Vitaphone sound system. The claim was about musicians protesting the introduction of recorded music.

z7 3y ago

Not the parent but here's one article: >After the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, all bets were off for live musicians who played in movie theaters. Thanks to synchronized sound, the use of live musicians was unnecessary — and perhaps a larger sin, old-fashioned. In 1930 the American Federation of Musicians formed a new organization called the Music Defense League and launched a scathing ad campaign to fight the advance of this terrible menace known as recorded sound. >The Music Defense League spent over $500,000, running ads in newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. The ads pleaded with the public to demand humans play their music (be it in movie or stage theaters), rather than some cold, unseen machine. >Joseph N. Weber, the president of the American Federation of Musicians, made it clear in the March, 1931 issue of Modern Mechanix magazine that the very soul of art was at stake in this battle against the machines. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-against-evil-robots-92702721/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...

GeoAtreides 3y ago
well: > live musicians who played in movie theaters and it wasn't about recorded music, but mechanical pianos
- z7 3y ago
  No, it was about recorded music, as the article says. The movie made use of the Vitaphone sound system. The claim was about musicians protesting the introduction of recorded music.