Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s

Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s

Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s
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Performer: Various Artists
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-05-16
Music Label: Archeophone Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Learning a City Girl How To Milk
  2. The Tapeworm Story
  3. Gimlet's Soliloquy
  4. The Rascal Detector
  5. The Whores' Union
  6. Boarding the Folsom
  7. A Few Conundrums
  8. Out Of Order
  9. Did He Charge Too Much
  10. Reilly As a Policeman
  11. Sim Hadley On a Racket
  12. Sim Hadley On a Racket
  13. Michael Casey Exhibiting His Panorama
  14. Dennis Reilly At Maggie Murphy's Home After Nine O'Clock
  15. Stroll On Capitol Hill
  16. A Hard Head (Hit)
  17. The Virtues Of Raw Oysters
  18. A Northern Drummer Traveling Through the South
  19. Little Johnny Asked His Teacher the Following Conundrum
  20. Here Lies the Body Of Timothy Keeling
  21. There Was a Young Lady From Alaska
  22. Here's To the Duck
  23. A Minister Having Had Various Troubles With His Congregation
  24. Mary Had a Little Watch
  25. Who Was the First Farmer?
  26. He Was Tall And She Was Fair
  27. He Tried Her On the Sofa
  28. A Social Glass And a Social Lass
  29. Here's To True Affection
  30. Oh, My Father's a Hedger And Ditcher
  31. Mary Had a Little Lam, Cunning As a Fox
  32. The Squirrel Has a Bushy Tail
  33. Mary Had a Little Cat With Curly Short Black Hair
  34. His Name Was Tom Towser
  35. The Lady's Friend
  36. Oh, Johnny And the Teacher Were Studying Stars
  37. The Irishman's Prayer
  38. Two Men Meet On the Sidewalk
  39. Good Old Ben Adhem!
  40. A Maid On a Dare
  41. The farmer's Sittin' In the Grandstand Chair
  42. There Was a Girl In Lewiston Town
  43. I Sit Here Thinking, Will, Of You?
  44. Untitled Track
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Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s Poster

New York City, 1896. A man walks into a bar. He sits down, orders a beer, and laughs long and hard at the bartender's newest story. It's a good tale, though too bawdy to repeat at home. The next day he goes into the same bar, gets his beer, and drops his change into a phonograph. He's listening through rubber tubes to a man telling a story similar to the bartender's. Without warning Anthony Comstock's defenders of decency charge into the bar, push him aside, destroy the record, and escort the bar's proprietor to jail for promoting indecency. The records on this CD are the few that Comstock's men missed. Scarcity and suppression have kept them silent for a century. Put aside the modern myth of a more genteel era: these late-Victorian performances are indecent even by--especially by--today's standards. And while not for mixed company, they spoke to many in the coarse language and crude humor of daily experience. They were stories told readily in the bar; yet they became legally actionable offenses when fixed in wax and played on a phonograph in that same bar. These newly-discovered recordings play like soundtracks to the moving images of prize fighters, scarf dancers, and kissing lovers flickering on the kinetoscope--the other nickel entertainment in the bar. The records and films were produced in the same years, in the same studios, by the same people. They were enjoyed in tandem by the same audiences. They were accused of violating the same standards of decency in communities where they were profitably exhibited. And together, they presaged the clashes between morals and mass media that would erupt regularly during the century to follow. This CD presents these extraordinary recordings in their unexpurgated entirety. It allows us to hear uncut and uncensored what new technology made possible and the protectors of public morals made illegal: "indecent" performances driven out of business, off the public stage, and into the privacy of unmixed company in the home.

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