Podcast #248 – African American Preachers on Wax

On this week’s episode, scholar Lerone Martin shares with us the fascinating history of African-American preachers who distributed their sermons on 78rpm records during a time when they had limited access to the radio in the 1920s-1940s. Martin, Associate Professor in Religion and Politics at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Making of Modern African American Religion. This is a rebroadcast of episode #186 from March of 2019. Show Notes: * Lerone Martin* Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Making of Modern African American Religion* The Forgotten Phonograph Preachers* Podcast #181 – Visiting Community Radio Stations Around the World