New Publication: eBook, Crank Up the Phonograph
I recently finished a book that I put online. I call it Crank Up the Phonograph: Who We Are and Where We Came from in Early Sound Recordings. You can access it at http://www.crankupthephonograph.com/ and there is no charge. Using early sound recordings as a base for study, the book attempts to understand how average Americans viewed people considered to be outsiders (immigrants, African Americans and country people) and how immigrants viewed their world. (Record manufacturers in the early years of sound recordin