| 单词 | race record | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasrace record   race record  n. ΚΠ 1886    Newark 		(Ohio)	 Daily Advocate 16 Sept.  				Wood won in 2:32 3-5, beating the race record of 2:33, made in Hartford last week by himself. 1893    Outing 22 101/1  				Goldsmith Maid..left the turf with a race record never equaled. 2005    G. Armstrong  & P. Thompson Melbourne Cup 1930 xvii. 194  				The winning time was 3.27¾, five seconds outside the race record held by Windbag and Spearfelt. race record  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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