<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv9029652332"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_46991" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv9029652332"><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_44608" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv9029652332"><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_41482" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv9029652332"><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422372839874_18883" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr">I recently finished a book that I put online. I call it <em id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422372839874_23721">Crank Up the Phonograph: Who We Are and Where We Came From in Early Sound Recordings</em>. You can access at <span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422372839874_18867" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><a id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422222849592_2389" href="http://www.crankupthephonograph.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422372839874_18869" color="#196ad4">http://www.crankupthephonograph.com/</font></a> and there is no charge. Using early commercial sound recordings </span><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_33621" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>as a base for study, the book attempts to understand how people from the 1890s to the early 1930s and the late 1940s to the early 1960s viewed themselves, others, and the general world they encountered.</span><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_33623" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> The five chapters focus on the following:</span></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_33674" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span><br></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_33675" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_33676" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>1. Sale patterns of </span><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_17911" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>early recordings primarily on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Little Italy</span></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_33677" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_33678" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>2. The utilizations of stereotypical language </span><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_18185" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>to define ethnic, racial and "rube" boundaries </span></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_33679" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_33680" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>3. English acquisition </span><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_18188" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>among immigrants (This section is built on a database that suggests which English words entered the immigrant languages and when they entered. To a certain extent it addresses why.)</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_47156" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_18190" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>4. The packaging of ethnic, racial and "rube" groups with new technologies</span><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_18342" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> such as telephones and automobiles</span></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_21960" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_18264" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>5. The ramifications of a diminished trait list among immigrant groups that have been in the country for a long time </span></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_17990" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span><br></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_17989" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_17985" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>I realize that the book is not a definitive study, but rather a series of suggestions. Comments would be greatly appreciated.</span></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_18062" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span><br></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_18063" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_18388" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Sincerely,</span></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_18109" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span><br></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_18110" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_46992" style='font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Eric Byron</span></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_17987" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv9029652332yui_3_16_0_1_1422391800397_33860" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>