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Musical collective is a phrase used to describe a group of musicians in which membership is flexible and creative control is shared. [1] The concept is distinct from that of a traditional band in that musical collectives allow for flexibility in their rosters, and members are free to rotate in and out of the line-up.
In 1887, the AFL and the Knights of Labor first invited the National League of Musicians to affiliate with the trade-union movement, but the offers produced deep divisions within the National League of Musicians. Some members objected to musicians being called laborers, insisting instead that they were "artists and professionals."
On August 1, 1942, the American Federation of Musicians, at the instigation of union president James C. Petrillo, began a strike against the major American record companies because of disagreements over royalty payments. Beginning on midnight, July 31, 1942, no union musician could make commercial recordings for any commercial record company. [1]
The International Federation of Musicians (FIM) was established on August 3,1948, during a conference in Zürich, which had been organized on the initiative of the Swiss Musicians' Union. The conference brought together key figures in the music industry to address musician's rights and the need for international cooperation in protecting these ...
Though, in his youth, Petrillo played the trumpet, he finally made a career out of organizing musicians into the union starting in 1919. [2] Petrillo became president of the Chicago Local 10 of the musician's union in 1922, and was president of the American Federation of Musicians from 1940 to 1958. [3] Petrillo stepped down as president in ...
Founded in 1904, the New Amsterdam Musical Association, NAMA is the oldest African-American musical organization in the United States.It was founded at the time that the American Federation of Musicians Local 310 (now, Local 802) did not admit minority musicians and the law stated that one had to be in the union in order to perform in New York City.
A member of "Downrange" - a rock band composed of musicians from the U.S. Army Band - performs for U.S. troops in Iraq. Soldiers in Army bands can reconfigure from a ceremonial ensemble to smaller, genre-specific groups that provide live entertainment to troops in remote areas and combat theaters with cover songs of popular hits.
On 7 May 1893 in Manchester a meeting was held to form a union for musicians, twenty musicians attended and formed the Manchester Musicians' Union. [4] The meeting had been organised by the union's first secretary, Joseph Bevir Williams, who became the leader of the Amalgamated Musicians' Union as the union was renamed to include artists from across the United Kingdom. [4]