Little Labels Big Sound - Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music

95 t / £13.95

List of contents

Preface

Introduction: Little Labels and the American Beat, 1920-1970

1. Gennett Records

2. Paramount Records

3. Dial Records

4. King Records

5. Duke-Peacock Records

6. Sun Records

7. Riverside Records

8. Ace Records

9. Monument Records

10. Delmark Records

Little Labels on Reissue Anthologies

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Rick Kennedy is Professor of History at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. He is the author of A History of Reasonableness: Testimony and Authority in the Art of Thinking (2004).

Summary

From the 1920s through the 1960s, scores of small, independent record companies nurtured distinctly American music: jazz, blues, gospel, country, rhythm and blues, and the 1950s offspring of R&B, rock n' roll. This title profiles ten such companies.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Lee Kennedy, Rick Kennedy, Kennedy Rick, Randy McNult, McNult Randy, Randy McNutt
• Assisted by: Foreword by Al Kooper Rick Kennedy and R (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1999
• EAN: 9780253214348
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21434-8
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 335 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous