Forty years before MTV and music videos, there were "soundies." Between 1940 and 1947, about 1,800 were made, three-minute black-and-white films designed to be shown on Panorams, coin-operated film ...
Part I: Follow the Money -- Introduction: Turning on a Dime -- 1. Circa 1940: Race and the Pop-Culture Landscape -- 2. Risky Business -- 3. Starting in Hollywood, Heading to Harlem -- Part II: Follow ...