Prelude: supposing we have us a little tune here -- Learning to listen -- True relations -- Let's get this dance started -- Here's one you can all sing right with us -- A special prayer on the man that's a-catching the record -- I ought to be recording right now -- A corn licker still in Georgia -- Coda: well folks, here we are again
Summary
When record men first traveled from Chicago or invited musicians to studios in New York, these entrepreneurs had no conception how their technology would change the dynamics of what constituted a musical performance. 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South covers a revolution in artist performance and audience perception through close examination of hundreds of key "hillbilly" and "race" records released between the 1920s and World War II. In the postwar period, regional strains recorded on pioneering 78 r.p.m. discs exploded into urban blues and R & B, honk
