"Buried Under the Fecundity of His Own Creations": Reconsidering the Recording Bans of the American Federation of Musicians, 1942-1944 and 1948.

Focuses on the national recording bans of the American Federation of Musicians (AMF) in the U.S. Argument of musicians on the inability of the government to control recording technologies; Concerns of the AMF or union; Resistance to new technologies through recording strikes.