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Jerry Osborne's Rockin' Records has long been the most popular record guide. Now with 1,008 pages, this is by far the biggest record guide we've ever made. It is regarded throughout the industry as the best available guide, and it is the one accepted by all the major insurance companies. Contains over 55,300 different artists sections! Rockin' Records has everything you need to know to price practically every disc you own: singles (33, 45, & 78 rpms), albums (10-inch & 12-inch), picture sleeves, and more. Spans over 100 years of pop, rock, country, jazz, blues, and a little of everything else ? from 1901 to 2005; from the very popular to the very, very obscure. And no guide includes as much Rare Soul 45s, still one of the hottest genres in collecting. There's even a section that helps you appraise records that, for whatever reason, are not listed in the guide. Rockin' Records prices OVER ONE MILLION RECORDS!
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Provides an extensive history of doo-wop from 1950 through the early 1970s and gives definitions and illustrations of the music that falls between rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll. It also features 150 photos, 64 sheet-music covers and prices for 1000 top doo-wop records.
The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the "modern" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.
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