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Feb 2023
50m 58s

The Day the Music Stopped

ROMAN MARS
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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. 
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