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Mechanical Music
Feb. 21st, 2012 10:11 pmIn 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 evil face of that campaign was the dastardly, maniacal robot.
- The Smithsonian
Great collection of classic advertisments as part of this campaign, which was, of course, completly succesful in destroying the scourge of souless pre-recorded music once and for all!
One thing I find interesting is that this is only ten years after R.U.R., but the term 'robot' for a mechanical humanoid had already clearly entered the English language and popular culture. Metropolis was 1927; what other iconic representations of robots had there been by 1930?
- The Smithsonian
Great collection of classic advertisments as part of this campaign, which was, of course, completly succesful in destroying the scourge of souless pre-recorded music once and for all!
One thing I find interesting is that this is only ten years after R.U.R., but the term 'robot' for a mechanical humanoid had already clearly entered the English language and popular culture. Metropolis was 1927; what other iconic representations of robots had there been by 1930?
