The American Record Label Book

"This directory is designed as an aid to music researchers requiring a guide to the commercial recording industry in the United Stated during the period of 1940 through 1959"--Introduction.

Tracing the cultural, technological, and economic shifts that shaped the transformation of the recording industry

This revised and updated definitive blues bibliography now includes 6,000-7,000 entries to cover the last decade’s writings and new figures to have emerged on the Country and modern blues to the R&B scene.