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Focusing on vinyl records and the labels that released them, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels traces the parallel rise of social movements in the second half of the twentieth century and the vinyl record as the dominant form of music distribution.

                                      
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By the Book: 'An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels'

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