An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels

by Josh MacPhee Justseeds Artists' Cooperative 10/15/2019, paperback SKU: 9781942173113   Just as the Civil Rights Movement leaps onto mainstream headlines in the early 1960s, the 33rpm "Long Player" and 45rpm single invade people's stereos. All the major Civil Rights organizations release vinyl records of speeches, movement songs, and field recordings--setting the pace for the intertwining of social movements and easily distributed sound recordings. This relationship continues through the end of the twentieth century, which marked both the end of apartheid in South Africa and the dominance of the vinyl format. An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is a compendium of information about political music. Focusing on vinyl records, and the labels that released them, this reference book traces the parallel rise of social movements in the second half of the twentieth century and the vinyl record as the dominant form of music distribution. From A-Disc (the record label of the Swedish Lab