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Hearing the Americas
Catalogue page listing piano rolls by category—Regular, Foreign Word, Foreign, Duo-Art Instrumental, and Library Edition—with titles, composers, and performers such as W. Wirt Parks and Robert Billings.

Listing of Foreign Piano Rolls

Catalog advertisement

Title

Listing of Foreign Piano Rolls

Description

This listing for regular and foreign piano rolls published in Talking Machine World by U.S. Music Company shows some interesting insights into the music industry of the 1920s. The "regular" versus "foreign" categories show a naturalization of American music/identity and that music companies recognized that foreign or ethnic recordings - even piano rolls - were popular. This listing mostly includes piano rolls by Polish musicians.

Date

September 15, 1925

Source

Library of Congress American Folklife Center,
Ethnic recordings in America: a neglected heritage

Type

Catalog advertisement
This listing for regular and foreign piano rolls published in Talking Machine World by U.S. Music Company shows some interesting insights into the music industry of the 1920s. The "regular" versus "foreign" categories show a naturalization of American music/identity and that music companies recognized that foreign or ethnic recordings - even piano rolls - were popular. This listing mostly includes piano rolls by Polish musicians.