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Twenty Thousand Hertz

CHAPTER

The Music Corporation - The Silent Record

John Cage became obsessed with the idea of silence. He worried that music would stop people from being able to hear silence altogether. In 1952, a college student in the Midwest started selling silent records for jukeboxes. It was seen as a terrible scourge by lots of musicians.

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