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Latest iteration of An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, a radical archive documenting the historic interplay between recorded sound and social change.
Recording Resistance: An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is a groundbreaking exploration of how vinyl records and the labels that released them supported and documented countless struggles for social and political change in the second half of the twentieth century. This expanded edition is the definitive illustrated history of the infrastructure of recorded sound that carried global social movements for over fifty years, including over 1500 record labels from over two dozen countries and territories.
Presenting a fascinating panorama of political sound and action, Recording Resistance not only archives the artists, organizers, and institutions that transformed music into a vehicle for education, organizing, and collective liberation; it is also a reminder of the many creative and political opportunities that arise when people come and organize together in person to make, record, press, and distribute music, and an homage to the social organizations—record labels—that made this possible.
Arranged alphabetically from A-Disc—the record label of the Swedish labor movement—to Zulu Records, founded by free jazz pioneer Phil Choran, each entry includes the label's history, logo, notes on the key artists, and its contributions to political music and cultural production. Richly illustrated and international in scope, Recording Resistance is an indispensable resource for music lovers, collectors, scholars, librarians, DJs, archivists, and anyone interested in the history of social movements and the sounds that helped shape them.
“MacPhee’s resource presents a personal tribute to a global musical movement for the dedicated collector.”—Booklist
“It is works like this one that provide a refreshingly different lens through which to view cultural production in its vinyl form.”—Mediated Signals
"To open Josh MacPhee's compendium of political record labels is to be blasted by a hurricane of compassionate creativity [that provides] potent fuel for today's struggles. The book's message is clear: go and do likewise!"—Mark Andersen, author of Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capitol
“This book is a delight. It’s a book full of hope, of daring, of community, and kinship. It’s a book full of enthusiasm and passion. And most of all, it’s a book full of inspiration — for anyone flicking through the logos and headings, a book to make you think, ‘I could do that.’”—Boff Whalley, Chumbawamba
“Above all, Encyclopedia is testimony to the vastness and variety of music devoted to humanity’s liberation.”—Mat Callahan, musician and author of The Explosion of Deferred Dreams and The Trouble with Music
“Josh MacPhee has done a great service for all of us interested in the intersection of independent records and radical politics. Encompassing as it does such a wide variety of political voices in the international underground of record making, the encyclopedia paradoxically almost shrinks the world by fostering a vision of a community working without borders in varied strains of solidarity even if not always in full view or knowledge of each other. Every entry opens a window onto a different story of creativity and resistance and I couldn’t stop hopscotching around from page to page, each one sparking off vectors for further thought and exploration. A totally mind-blowing accomplishment.”—Guy Picciotto, Fugazi
Foreword
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Labels
Glossary of Musical Styles
Appendix of Further Information
Index