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99% Invisible — The Day the Music Stopped
Not scored yet50m·2023-02-08·Arts Culture

The Day the Music Stopped

99% Invisible · 524

On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new technologies threatening their livelihoods, so they refused to record until they got their fair share. One Year's Evan Chung explores one of the most consequential labor actions of the 20th century, and how it coincided…

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