In this episode, Haley Bloch and Amanda Taglich explore how those at American society’s margins, such as European immigrants from poor backgrounds, African Americans, and other people of color, struggled for acceptance and influence in mainstream media despite deep-rooted racism and xenophobia. To be alive during the twentieth century was to experience a flood of different voices, all influencing the social and cultural landscape for decades to come by expressing their ideals and passions through their music.