| Aborigines, lowest in the scale of savagery, chant their song to tribal gods and play upon pipes and shark-skin drums | — The statement from this 1929 advertisement in the , a newspaper, said, in part: [ picture of a can with a label saying 'Canned Music — Big Noise Brand — Guaranteed to produce no intellectual or emotional reaction whatever' ] Canned Music On Trial |
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| Bell System Technical Journal, July 1926, 493—523 | A brief summary of E |
| ", issued 1933-06-14, assigned to Alan Dower Blumlein and Musical Industries, Limited• "On the prehistory of programmable machines: musical automata, looms, calculators" | The defendant stands accused in front of the American people of attempted corruption of musical appreciation and discouragement of musical education |
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| , Alan Dower Blumlein, "Improvements in and relating to Sound-transmission, Sound-recording and Sound-reproducing Systems | " an online article by Allan Sutton• If the theatre-going public accepts this vitiation of its entertainment program a deplorable decline in the Art of Music is inevitable |
This is the case of Art versus Mechanical Music in theatres.
9| American Federation of Musicians Comprising 140,000 musicians in the United States and Canada , Joseph N | "1927 — With the release of the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer, orchestras in movie theaters were displaced |
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| 1928 — While continuing to protest the loss of jobs due to the use of 'canned music' with motion pictures, the AFM set minimum wage scales for Vitaphone, Movietone and phonograph record work | The earliest known surviving electrical recording was made on a magnetic recorder at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris |
From the beginning of history, men have turned to musical expression to lighten the burdens of life, to make them happier.
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