The Language of Vinyl
Record Industry Terms and Phrases of the Golden Era
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
Published:13th Jul '21
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Ever hear of a butt splice? A cover? An iron mother? A biscuit? These were terms used in the heyday of vinyl records, from 1949 to the mid-1980s. This colorful and almost forgotten language was once used by record producers, label owners, disc jockeys, jukebox operators, record distributors, and others in the music industry. Their language is collected in this dictionary. Each entry offers both an explanation of a term's meaning as well as its context and use in the history of the record business.
“Entertaining and useful…I expect I will turn to this well-done volume with some frequency to better understand the subtleties of industry jargon and trends in past decades, and also to provide a more complete historical understanding of the world of recordings as they developed across that last century.”—Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal
ISBN: 9781476685724
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
Weight: 376g
271 pages