<p><span class="deck"> For almost two decades at the turn of the century illustrated songs charmed nickelodeon audiences.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> The story of the world’s longest-running radio program and the extraordinary American music it helped make popular</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">A faded industrial town in upstate New York is home to one of the world’s greatest concert halls.</span></p>
<p>For most of the 1800s, whites in blackface performed in widely popular minstrel shows, creating racist stereotypes that endured for more than a century.</p>
