单词 | race music |
释义 | > as lemmasrace music C3. General attributive. Originally U.S. Relating to or designating a style of music originally intended for an African-American audience. Frequently in race music, race record. Now historical.Record companies began using the term in the 1920s to denote recordings made by and marketed to African Americans; this music had its origins in the southern United States and included jazz, blues, gospel, and traditional songs (see also quot. 1938). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > folk music > [adjective] > race or soul race1923 soulful1947 soul1960 1923 Afr. Amer. (Baltimore, Maryland) 24 Aug. 4/5 (advt) Step right up and meet your old friends harmonizing..in that new Okeh Race Record, ‘Monkey Man Blues’. 1926 H. Niles in W. C. Handy Blues 31 Listen to the ‘race records’, for this craft is sui generis. 1927 Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. Apr. 12 ‘Race blues’..are not always what they seem. 1935 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 71/3 Negro bands play ‘race music’ (a curious euphemism spread by phonograph companies). 1938 Collier's 30 Apr. 24/4 We were afraid to advertise Negro records. So I listed them in the catalogue as ‘race’ records and they are still known as that. 1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) vi. 145 It was considered authentic enough for the uncritical Victor Company to issue in its race catalogue. 1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. iv. 32 Their masterpieces appeared on the so-called ‘race’ labels of the record companies. 1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues 5 In the ensuing months more stores carried Race records, specially pressed for the Negro market... Race records from jazz to vaudeville to rural blues reached the remotest districts. 1977 Times 17 Aug. 14/4 Negro styles traditionally stigmatized as ‘race’ music. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Jan. 10 The earliest ‘race’ recordings, produced for a black audience in the 1920s..give the best idea of what this music was like to listen to in the juke joints of the south. < as lemmas |
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