# Radio Enchains Music: The 1940 ASCAP Radio War and Music Festivals

Drawing on recordings, reviews, photographs, sheet music and materials in the Library's ASCAP Foundation Collection, this lecture argues that the 1940 ASCAP concert sheds new light on the issues of mass culture and radio, protest, race and gender at this reaffirmation of the American popular music canon in the final years before involvement in World War II.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2021
- By: Library Of Congress. Music Division
- Genres: War, Music
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697761/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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