A scene from Harlem in the 1920s

Exploring New York's Past Through Sound

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 4, 2014

Emily Thompson, historian at Princeton University and the author of Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933, talks about her study of sound and her website featuring sounds of New York City in the 1920's.

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