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THE ’THIRTIES By Allan Sutton The latest installment in the EAR Series chronicles an often overlooked and misunderstood decade in the history of the American recording industry. The industry did not go into hibernation during the 1930s, as is so often written. New labels were launched even during the darkest days of 1930–31, and the mid-1930s saw a blossoming of new independent labels. This was also the decade in which the record industry lost its innocence, with the introduction of adult “party record” labels, the exploitation of recordings for political propaganda. There were questionable dealings between record companies and jukebox operators, revelations of dangerous working conditions in the pressing plants, and increasingly strident demands by union leaders that the record companies share their newfound wealth. |
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By Kurt Nauck & Allan Sutton Indestructible
and U-S Everlasting Cylinders
is the first new study of these records in five decades. It covers
all brands and series and includes release dates, composer credits,
alternate versions, and other data, while correcting the many
errors and omissions in the old Deakins and Annand guides. |
