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[microsound] use of songs during wartime
This topic brought a couple of questions to mind:
1. Does ASCAP and BMI track these "public performances" and give royalties to the artists? (if you've ever worked in a coffee shop or bar that plays the radio, you know how persnickety these organizations can be about "collecting" for their artists.)
2. Do the armed forces get permission from the artists and publisher to play these tunes for warfare purposes? Remember what happened when a certain politician co-opted "Born in the USA" w/o getting the artist's permission (or really understanding what the song was about)?
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 07:47:00 -0500
To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: vze26m98 <vze26m98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: sounds of Falluja...
Message-id: <r02010400-1035-738724F8324D11D9A1BE000D932C0D78@[67.84.254.108]>
This from today's New York Times:
"For a time, this frightening urban battlefield became a pulsing
cacophony of strange and deadly sounds. The mosques in the city
broadcast calls to jihad through their speakers. F-18's fired 3,000
rounds a minute in bursts that sounded oddly like burps. AC-130 gunships
droned overhead, their big cannons going thunk, thunk as they found
targets.
Perhaps strangest of all, the American troops brought in their own
"psyops" trucks - for psychological operations - and blared sounds that
created a nightmarish duet with the mosques: old AC/DC songs, something
that sounded like a sonar ping, the cavalry charge."
Urban Warfare Deals Harsh Challenge to Troops
By DEXTER FILKINS
Published: November 9, 2004
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