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Edison's Phonograph vs. the Gramophone: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.7

Let It Roll by Nate WIlcox

Aug 26, 202648:14Music

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses minstrelsy and blackface and includes a recording of a 1902 ‘coon song,’ presented as historical evidence. Racial slurs occur in the song’s title and in the discussion around it. I...

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