... Plummer James Petrillo Elijah (“Lige”) Shaw Eddie B. Love San Francisco AFM Local 6 San Francisco AFM Local 669 Chicago AFM Local 208 William Everett Samuels Red Saunders Bill Preyer The July 1944 issue of the International Musician featured a welcome announcement on page 1...

... Landrum Griffin Act 1959 Local 802 AFM New York Davis Hal Mack James Washington Leon D Local 10 208 AFM Chicago Dyett Walter George Meany James Petrillo Los Angeles AFM Local 47 Musician’s Committee for Integration Seattle AFM Local 76 Seattle AFM Local 493 Powell Barnett San Francisco AFM...

... Neighbor,” music therapy music appreciation propaganda racial uplift radio recording ban social uplift V-Discs Marc Blitzstein Aaron Copland Henry Cowell Elmer Davis Olin Downes Bess Lomax Hawes Madame Chiang Kai-shek Chauncey Lee Mobley Lushanya James Petrillo Harriet Ayer Seymour...

... H Sound film Silent film Theater musicians James Petrillo Great Depression Prohibition Night clubs Music Defense League Living Music Days Joseph Weber The 1920s were a heady time for the country’s musicians. Despite the passage of Prohibition in 1920, some speakeasies and many dance halls...

... Washington DC AFM Local 161 Otis Ducker Lou Aikens James Petrillo Streckfus Steamers New Orleans AFM Local 174 New Orleans AFM Local 496 Barry Martyn David Winstein The Chicago model—without the accompanying trusteeship and lawsuits—formed the basis for the numerous mergers that followed...

... employment legislation Local 47 AFM Los Angeles subsidiaries AFM locals AFM Diversity Council David Keller Gordon Bowman James Petrillo David Anthony The amalgamation process put an end to segregation in the AFM, but in other respects its effects were decidedly mixed. In Los Angeles, the younger...