Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. American Technospace and the Emergence of Popular Modernity
2. The Disembodied Voice: Coughlin, Crosby, and Other Crooners
3. Temporality and Commercial Culture: Nostalgic Entertainments
4. Visuality: The "Scopic Regime" of Popular Modernity
5. Vocality, Visuality, Alterity: Black American Cultural Production
6. The Narrative Imperative
Works Consulted
Index