AMERICAN EPIC

In the 1920s and 1930s, as radio took over the pop music business, record companies were forced to leave their studios in major citi es in search of new styles and markets. Ranging the mountains, prairies, rural villages, and urban ghettos of America, they discover ed a wealth of unexpected talentfarmers, laborers, and ethnic minorities playing styles that blended the intertwining strands of Eu rope, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In the 1920s and 1930s, as radio took over the pop music business, record companies were forced to leave...[Read more]