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Source: APM "Weekend America"

Roundup

4-29-06

Wax Cylinder [9min]

Bill Radke talks to Tim Brooks about some of the earliest recordings put to wax. Literally. Tim is the author of Lost Sounds: Blacks And the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919. He talks about how these recordings helped shape history.

Read entire article at APM "Weekend America"