Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion

by Lerone A. Martin

Book Overview

The overlooked African American religious history of the phonograph industry

Winner of the 2015 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize for outstanding scholarship in church history by a first-time author presented by the American Society of Church History

Certificate of Merit, 2015 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

From 1925 to 1941,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479890952
• ISBN13: 9781479890958
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"