{"id":2563,"date":"2022-04-23T20:28:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T03:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2022-04-23T22:41:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T05:41:11","slug":"this-weeks-undertow-why-are-police-playing-disney-songs-and-why-did-this-orchestra-fire-it-conductor-for-conducting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2022\/04\/this-weeks-undertow-why-are-police-playing-disney-songs-and-why-did-this-orchestra-fire-it-conductor-for-conducting.html","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s UnderTow: Why are Police Playing Disney Songs? And Why did this Orchestra Fire its Conductor for… Conducting?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This week’s podcast of The UnderTow, ArtsJournal’s new weekly podcast, features three stories from the past week. Sometimes stories are not exactly about the things they seem to be about at first look. Our first story is one such. You might have seen the headline in ArtsJournal about police in California playing Disney songs while investigating calls and thought “that’s odd” and passed it by. And yes, on the surface it’s a story about police finding a way to discourage bystanders from videotaping them. But the story about copyright abuse by social platforms is something that could affect any creative artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this week’s story lineup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. First, the story of police in cities in California pulling up in the squad cars on calls and blasting \u2013 of all things \u2013 Disney songs on their loudspeakers as they investigate, bewildering and aggravating residents. What can they be thinking<\/a>?<\/li>
  2. Second, and oddly enough \u2013 another Disney story \u2013 in which the Governor of Florida declares war on the company, the state\u2019s biggest business and cultural icon, no less \u2013stripping it of its special governing district.<\/li>
  3. Finally \u2013 the story of a Texas orchestra that fired its music director \u2026 for conducting his musicians in a concert.<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    You can see and download episodes here.<\/strong><\/a> If you like what you hear, subscribe through Apple or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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