"Industry Cannot Go On without the Production of Some Noise": New York City's…

This study details New York City's Depression-era street music ban and concurrent noise abatement campaign to reveal the relationship of changing definitions of work with sound. New York had issued street music licenses for a fee, but Mayor Fiorelb LaGwardia put an end to the practice. While some have assumed LaGuardia banned street music to combat Italian stereotypes associated with organ grin…