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Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion - Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
Lerone A. Martin
Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion - Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
Lerone A. Martin
From 1925 to 1941, approximately one hundred African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Columbia, Paramount, Victor-RCA to record and sell their sermons on wax. This book offers the account of the oft-overlooked religious history of the phonograph industry.
240 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 14, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9780814708323 |
Publishers | New York University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 557 g |
Language | English |
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