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William R. Bryant - Ajax records
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| Schrijver: | William R. Bryant |
| Titel: | Ajax records |
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| Uitgever: | Mainspring press |
| Bijzonderheid: | Als nieuw |
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€ 15,00
€ 5,50
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| Meer info | Three of the present discographies are completions of projects left unfinished by the late William R. "Bill" Bryant (1950-1995), whose publications and contributions to record scholarship should be familiar to ARSC members. The little discography of Ajax Records had been begun as a project for Record Research magazine by Len Kunstadt, Walter C. Allen, Perry Armagnac, George Blacker, and Carl Kendziora. In 1990, Bryant received through bequest the various Record Research unpublished works and research materials. According to Allan Sutton's historical introduction, Ajax was founded as a race record label in 1923 by Herbert S. Berliner, son of the gramophone inventor Emile Berliner. Herbert Berliner operated an independent pressing plant in the Canadian province of Quebec, which expedited the manufacture of records for his low-budget labels. Ajax masters were recorded in New York, the records were pressed in Quebec, and they were marketed in America. Ajax's crude advertisements in the Chicago Defender newspaper jostled visually for reader attention with the more polished ones for Paramount and OKeh. After two years, Berliner ceased Ajax, for reasons that Sutton briefly gives (pp.14-15): Ajax's scout and producer Joe Davis was no match for Paramount's Mayo Williams; the New York scene for African American music was not as rich in talent as that in Chicago |
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