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"Industry Cannot Go On without the Production of Some Noise": New York City's Street Music Ban and the Sound of Work in the New Deal Era

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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 grinders, this essay detnonsuates that e^orts to reconcile chan^ng social policy with the work ethic motivated both LaGuardia's ban and public resistance to it. Street musicians occupied an ambiguous space between begging and self-employment and, as relief programs provoked public concern over
economic individualism, confusion between honest unemployment and willful dependency was a poUdcal liability for the Mayor. Yet, while the Mayor condemned busking as begging, citizens sprang to street
music's defense, arguing the ban would force practitioners onto the relief rolls; while municipal policy proclaimed street music was no longer work, some New Yorkers suddenly believed the opposite.
Simultaneously, LaGuardia hunched an antinoise campaign that evaluated sounds on the basis of economic necessity. Noises essential to work were moderated while "unnecessary" noises were silenced.

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Judul Seri

Joumal of Social History

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: Oxford University Press., 2012

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Joumal of Social History vol. 46 no. 1 (2012), pp. 106-123

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English

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Tipe Media

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SOSIAL, KEADAAN

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