Blues and Gospel Records
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$170.00 (04)Description
Since its first edition in 1964, Dixon and Goodrich's Blues and Gospel Records has been dubbed "the bible" for collectors of pre-war African American music. It provides an exhaustive listing of all recordings of the period, from the earliest cylinders up to the end of 1943, with full details on singers, accompanists, place and date of recording, titles, issue numbers, and alternate takes. The fourth edition has been thoroughly revised, adding about 150 new artists as well as numerous newly discovered recordings of other artists. The book now also includes early cylinder recordings of gospel music from the 1890s.Reviews
Praise for the third edition : "Indispensable: every music library should have it, and it will be a high priority item on any blues collector's list."--Ethnomusicology
"The definitive discography of the genre; it is comprehensive and accurate to the extreme, and is essential for all those who are interested in pre-war blues and gospel recordings."--Goldmine
"Absolutely indispensible to anyone with an interest in pre-war Blues and Gospel music."--Blues Unlimited
About the Author(s)
The compilers of this volume come from a mixture of backgrounds. Robert M. W. Dixon is Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at the Australian National University. He has done original field research on the indigenous languages of Australia, Fiji, and Amazonia, besides writing A New Approach to English Grammar: On Semantic Principles (Clarendon Press, 1991). The late John Godrich was in the Merchant Navy and then worked as a clerk at Swansea Docks. Howard Rye , who like Dixon is an Oxford graduate, is an independent scholar of jazz and blues. He is principal researcher for the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and is a regular contributor to jazz and blues publications. From 1980 to 1995, he was editor of Collectors Items .
