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For a brief but significant period in the 1890s, the nascent phonograph industry profitably yet discreetly promoted to a receptive segment of listeners \"very wrong and improper\" songs, stories, and sketches -- or, as a more sympathetic critic characterized them, recordings best \"reserved by purchasers for private edification and instruction.\" Victorian mores kept these recordings underground, and successful prosecution under obscenity statutes ultimately deterred their production. A century later these pioneer recordings remain virtually unknown and unstudied: few examples survive, scant contemporary documentation exists (apart from outraged condemnations and arrest reports), and their content remains objectionable in civil company even today. Here we trace the earliest history of phonographic indecency. We bring to light surviving specimens via prudently selected sound samples. We explore the phenomenon of the \"vulgar\" brown wax cylinder and its presaging of similar content in subsequent mass media. Finally, we assess the challenges modern researchers face in studying and presenting such material."]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}}],"summary":{"en":["In 1896 humorist Russell Hunting was sentenced to three months in prison for \"spreading indecency\" via the phonograph, but he wasn't the only popular performer making \"bad records\" -- even Cal Stewart of Uncle Josh fame dabbled in the genre. For a brief but significant period in the 1890s, the nascent phonograph industry profitably yet discreetly promoted to a receptive segment of listeners \"very wrong and improper\" songs, stories, and sketches -- or, as a more sympathetic critic characterized them, recordings best \"reserved by purchasers for private edification and instruction.\" Victorian mores kept these recordings underground, and successful prosecution under obscenity statutes ultimately deterred their production. A century later these pioneer recordings remain virtually unknown and unstudied: few examples survive, scant contemporary documentation exists (apart from outraged condemnations and arrest reports), and their content remains objectionable in civil company even today. Here we trace the earliest history of phonographic indecency. We bring to light surviving specimens via prudently selected sound samples. We explore the phenomenon of the \"vulgar\" brown wax cylinder and its presaging of similar content in subsequent mass media. 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