“Everyone will have their ready made or ready pirated music in their cupboards.” Something is irretrievably lost when we are no longer in the presence of bodies making music, Sousa said. “The time is coming when no one will be ready to submit himself to the ennobling discipline of learning music,” he wrote. The phonograph, he warned, would erode the finer instincts of the ear, end amateur playing and singing, and put professional musicians out of work. Ninety-nine years ago, John Philip Sousa predicted that recordings would lead to the demise of music.
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