Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jan 7, 2018 6:07:54 GMT
Just read the January 1910 edition of magazine Edison Phonograph Monthly. 108 years later, it provides insight into the early days of the record industry, albeit from the often biased corporate standpoint of the Edison label.
The list of new records for the month is interesting, I believe this is the earliest issue to mention records by an African-American artist (specifically, a group called Polk Miller and his Old South Quartette. Miller was white, but the quartet accompanying him were African-American. Perhaps a very early example of a racially integrated music group? Miller has a page on Wikipedia so he's not completely forgotten).
The magazine is public domain (copyright expired). The Library of Congress printed a compilation of the 1910 editions of the magazine back in 1983, and have uploaded to the Internet Archive:
archive.org/details/edisonphonograph08moor
The list of new records for the month is interesting, I believe this is the earliest issue to mention records by an African-American artist (specifically, a group called Polk Miller and his Old South Quartette. Miller was white, but the quartet accompanying him were African-American. Perhaps a very early example of a racially integrated music group? Miller has a page on Wikipedia so he's not completely forgotten).
The magazine is public domain (copyright expired). The Library of Congress printed a compilation of the 1910 editions of the magazine back in 1983, and have uploaded to the Internet Archive:
archive.org/details/edisonphonograph08moor