Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels by Josh MacPhee (English) Paperback Book

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A love letter to over 750 record labels which produced political music as a medium for improving our communities and world.

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"Every entry opens a window onto a different story of creativity and resistance and I couldn't stop hopscotching around from page to page, each one sparking off vectors for further thought and exploration. A totally mind-blowing accomplishment."Guy Picciotto, FugaziAn Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is a compendium of information about political music and radical cultural production. Focusing on vinyl records and the labels that released them, this groundbreaking 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.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.From A-Disc (the record label of the Swedish Labor Movement) to Zulu Records (the label of free jazz pioneer Phil Choran), An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is a compelling panorama of political sound and action, including over 750 record labels that produced political music. Each entry features the logo of the label, a brief synopsis of its history, and additional interesting information. Truly international in scope, over two dozen countries and territories are represented, as well as a myriad of musical styles and forms.

Author Biography

Josh MacPhee. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction The Labels Glossary of Musical Styles Appendix of Further InformationIndex

Review

"Above all, Encyclopedia is testimony to the vastness and variety of music devoted to humanity's liberation." --Mat Callahan, musician and author of The Explosion of Deferred Dreams and The Trouble with Music

Long Description

In each political movement, the question of how to disseminate information constantly arises. During the second half of the twentieth century, an often-unobserved method involved the vinyl record. In An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, Josh MacPhee highlights the span of political influence throughout vinyl's predominance by compiling record labels with a vast range of regional location, genre, and political affiliation. As MacPhee showcases, there are not distinct criteria signifying what a political record label consists of. Some labels appear to be sections of a political party that release vinyl copies of political music, while others are larger labels with a less political agenda but show solidarity by putting forth a record with a particular political focus. With the lines blurred, the Encyclopedia highlights thematic structures within record labels that span musical genre, cultures, and borders. From this, various relationships between politics and the vinyl record arise and call for potential areas of further study.

Review Quote

"To open Josh MacPhee's compendium of political record labels is to be blasted by a hurricane of compassionate creativity [that provides] potent fuel for today's struggles. The book's message is clear: go and do likewise!" --Mark Andersen, author of Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capitol

Excerpt from Book

In the title of this book, the name "encyclopedia" might be a slight misnomer. Instead of making a formal claim to historical fact, what I present is my research, very much in process. Much is drawn directly from the records (including 95 percent of the logos), with large amounts of help from the websites Discogs, Wikipedia, and Google Translate. Even though I've expanded the entries from 142 (first edition) to 230 (second edition) to 789 (the third edition you are reading now), this list is still by no means complete, nor likely 100 percent correct. It's pieced together from clues on the backs of record covers and in the footnotes of websites, tips from friends, advertisements in Sing Out! (a quarterly journal of folk music), flyers slipped into album sleeves, and my own extrapolation from music-related Wikipedia entries in a dozen different languages. That said, it is organized as a reference book. It's not intended to be read from cover to cover, but to be bounced around in; each time you pick it up, I hope it provides a new nugget of useful or fascinating information. There were infinite ways that this book could have been organized, but I eventually decided on alphabetical order as the most simple and straightforward. There is an alphabet guide on the far right of each page spread to help you get around. While in the English language we tend to put modifiers after nouns (i.e., Cobblestone Records), in other languages the modifiers come first (i.e., Disques Pav

Details ISBN1942173113 Author Josh MacPhee Pages 208 Publisher Common Notions Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 1942173113 ISBN-13 9781942173113 Format Paperback Imprint Common Notions Place of Publication Matawan Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2019-10-31 Illustrations Color illustrations throughout DEWEY 741.66 Audience General AU Release Date 2020-01-20 Publication Date 2019-11-28 UK Release Date 2019-11-28 We've got this

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