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race record en · NOUN
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(US, dated) A musical recording featuring a black performer.
It is a moot point, however, whether Black Swan would have been more successful had there not been segregated markets and had the white-owned record labels not already established the idea of what a race record should be.
2016, Richard Osborne, Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record:[…] Blind Lemon Jefferson would someday be a "race record" star whose music eventually reached hundreds of thousands of eager listeners some fourteen years after their initial meeting in Dallas.
2023, Alan Govenar, Kip Lornell, See That My Grave is Kept Clean:
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