Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shapin. Martin Paperback<|

Preaching on WaxThe Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion\nAuthor(s): Lerone A. Martin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479890958, 978-1479890958\nSynopsis\nThe overlooked African American religious history of the phonograph industry\n Winner of the 2015 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize for outstanding scholarship in church history by a first-time author presented by the American Society of Church History \n Certificate of Merit, 2015 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections\n From 1925 to 1941, approximately one hundred African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Columbia, Paramount, Victor-RCA to record and sell their sermons on wax. While white clerics of the era, such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Fuller, became religious entrepreneurs and celebritie.