Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A New Apparatus for the Enlargement of Phonograph Records
I believe that this can be done most effectively in connection with a project of independent value. Scientific corporations in Europe are beginning to establish Phonogram Archives of the dialects existing within their immediate reach. The necessity for such a collection is even more pressing in the United States than in the case of European countries: Our dialects change more rapidly than those of Europe on account of the rapid varia tions in the ethnic character of our populations; certain Indian languages, negro speech and negro song of the south, are speedily disintegrating, the transitory progress of immigrants' English presents problems of language mixture of great linguistic and psychological weight. Facts bearing on such and many other problems must not only be preserved by means of a National American Phonogram Archive, but they must also be studied with its help, and, partly at least, through the medium of phonoglyph reproductions as described in these pages.
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