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Howard Rye, Chris Smith - Blues and Gospel Recordings, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Blues and Gospel Recordings

1890–1943

Av Howard Rye, Chris Smith

Del i serien American Made Music Series

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Blues and Gospel Recordings: 1890–1943 is the fifth edition of a work that has been indispensable to listeners and scholars alike for over half a century. It is as comprehensive a listing as possible of the culturally and stylistically African American recordings made within its timeframe, with the exception of those usually regarded as jazz and those by secular vocal groups that are part of the mainstream of popular music. The book covers all types of recorded sound documents, not only commercial recordings sold to the public on discs and cylinders but also films, transcription discs for the use of radio stations, and surviving radio broadcasts. Sound documents recorded by African Americans at locations outside the United States are included, as well as field recordings made for or deposited with academic institutions. In this new edition, the holdings of the Library of Congress are covered at greater length, in more detail, and more accurately. Numerous extensive and historically important collections held by other institutions are documented in print for the first time. The main text is preceded by a survey of the activities of the companies that recorded blues and gospel material for inclusion in Race series, along with a summary of the visits their traveling recording units made to the South. Previous editions have been praised for their completeness and accuracy. For this edition, the text has been thoroughly revisited, with many revisions made, and significantly expanded in coverage and scope. Available as an ebook for the first time, this is the essential guide to the enjoyment and study of the first half-century of recorded African American blues and gospel music.
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John Godrich (1926–1991) was a merchant seaman who became a shipping clerk at Swansea Docks in Wales. He wrote many articles on blues and coauthored Recording the Blues with Robert M. W. Dixon. Robert M. W. Dixon has taught linguistics at the University of London, Harvard University, University of California Santa Cruz, and several Australian universities. He has written three monographs that examine the structure and lexicon of English and was a principal compiler of the first four editions of Blues and Gospel Recordings. Howard Rye is an independent scholar specializing in African American music and the African entertainment diaspora in Europe. He is associate editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography, the American National Biography, and the Oxford Companion to Black British History. Chris Smith is an independent researcher and discographer of jazz, blues, and gospel music who has written numerous articles and reviews in the specialist press and has annotated many LPs and CDs.

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"The Godrich and Dixon discography has been the bible of blues and gospel fans and my most treasured reference source for over fifty years. Rye and Smith have added a wealth of later scholarship, expanding and correcting this pioneering work with exhaustive research and meticulous care. I have been waiting eagerly for this new edition, and anyone interested in the history and survival of blues or gospel owes them an immeasurable debt." - Elijah Wald, musician and author of Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues "Since I first obtained an earlier version of this discography nearly fifty years ago, it has been an indispensable reference book. This milestone discography, once again refined with hundreds of updates and additions, serves researchers, scholars, and record collectors of this foundational American musical form exceptionally well." - Kip Lornell, professor emeritus of music history and culture at George Washington University

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