This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the "acoustic era" of recording technology. The book has cross-reference
"Though wildly popular in mid-1950s America, Calypso has been largely neglected or forgotten. This first-ever discography of the first 50 years of Trinidadian music includes all the major artists, as
Traditional African musical forms have long been accepted as fundamental to the emergence of blues and jazz. Yet there has been little effort at compiling recorded evidence to document their developme
