race record

English

Noun

race record (plural race records)

  1. (US, dated) A musical recording featuring a black performer.
    • 2016, Richard Osborne, Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record:
      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.
    • 2023, Alan Govenar, Kip Lornell, See That My Grave is Kept Clean:
      […] 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.
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