Interview by Dawoud Kringle (DK)
Photo by Yasi Omrani
DooBeeDooBeeDoo NY interviewed Iranian musician Kaveh Haghtalab (KH) (https://doobeedoobeedoo.info/kaveh-haghtalab-an-iranian-musicians-perspective-of-nys-music-scene/). This is part two of that interview, where we delve deeper into Kaveh’s experiences and work as a musician.
DK: You’ve been involved with several bands in New York since you moved here in 2012, one of which is SoSaLa. How did you become involved with them?
Reviews by Dawoud Kringle
Artist: Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra
Title: Piety Street Adjacent
Format: album
Label: Adjacent Records
Genre: Downtown Music/NO WAVE/electronic funky music
Buy here
Musicians For Musicians (MFM) Presents: Music Is Essential ZOOM Talk Event #10 with Bassists Jerome Harris and Ron Wasserman Speaking on “Bass: The Joys of The Bottom Line”
Date: Thursday, January 18th, 2023
Time: 5pm to 6:30pm (ET)
Text by Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery, November 9th, 2023)
“The Court of the Crimson King” performed by King Crimson. From their first album released in October of 1969
The rusted chains of prison moons are shattered by the sun
I walk a road, horizons change, the tournament’s begun
The purple piper plays his tune, the choir softly sing
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue for the court of the crimson king
An Editorial by Dawoud Kringle
Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), one of the major performing rights organizations (PRO) in the United States, was founded in 1939 by the National Association of Broadcasters.
In the late 1930s, royalties to publishers and songwriters worked differently than they do today. Rather than paying for the songs that they played, broadcasters were required to hand over a certain percentage of their revenue to a PRO, regardless of how much music they played, or which artists. During the Great Depression, ASCAP (the dominant PRO at that time, founded in 1914, and still the second-largest in the US today) raised the percentage it required broadcasters to pay. The radio broadcasters rebelled, and set up their collection organization; BMI. The US Justice Department under the Roosevelt Administration ran an antitrust investigation of ASCAP, and BMI. Both organizations entered into “consent decrees” with the Justice Department, requiring them to allow radio stations to pay only for the music they played, and requiring both organizations to offer their entire catalogs to broadcasters.
With only a few alterations, those consent decrees have governed ASCAP and BMI’s operations ever since. BMI and ASCAP have since operated on a nonprofit basis, collecting and distributing licensing fees to its affiliated songwriters and publishers after paying its overhead/operation costs. These PROs do not own copyrights.
