Popular American Recording Pioneers 1895‐1925

This is a title from the publisher’s excellent Popular Culture series, from which I can remember reviewing Arts & Entertainment Fads (RR 91/295) which is, by now, well‐thumbed. I’m sure this later work will also get good use: it is interesting, well organised, and attractively produced. I’m not a fan of pre‐publication “reviews”, seeing them as a marketing ploy, but two on the publisher’s puff are worthy of report. In one, a university professor with numerous books published on popular American culture, writes: “Fills one of the biggest gaps in the cultural history of this era” ‐a bold claim;...