{"id":153614,"date":"2022-12-26T05:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/musicians-wage-war-against-evil-robots"},"modified":"2022-12-26T05:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:22:40","slug":"musicians-wage-war-against-evil-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/musicians-wage-war-against-evil-robots","title":{"rendered":"Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/musicians-wage-war-against-evil-robots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the release of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Jazz_Singer_(1927_film)\">The Jazz Singer<\/a><\/em> 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 \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>The evil face of that campaign was the dastardly, maniacal robot. 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. A typical ad read like this one from the September 2, 1930 <em>Syracuse Herald<\/em> in New York:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tho\u2019 the Robot can make no music of himself, he can and does arrest the efforts of those who can.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2014 and perhaps a larger sin, old-fashioned. In 1930 the American Federation of Musicians formed a new organization called the Music Defense League [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}