The database is updated constantly.īrowse the Price Guide Listings (click here)Įnter keywords (example: ELVIS PRESLEY or BOB DENVER and always include the words 33-1/3 RECORD ALBUM) into the searchbox at the top of this page, then click the WHAT'S IT WORTH button.
Includes current market values in ten different grades. The searchable database consists ofĭetailed reports in an ever-growing database of items in this category. Whose price guide books have been the authority on collectibles values since 1985. Online RECORD ALBUM Price Guide.The price guide is maintained by Jon R. Welcome to the iGuide RECORD ALBUMS Price Guide For an ethnic musical style that has traditionally existed at the margins of mainstream American music industries, it is refreshing to read publicly accessible scholarship online that bestows working-class immigrant culture with respect.TOP RARE RECORD DEALER - GET HELP FROM AN EXPERT (click here) Without the research of “The Frontera Collection” I would have struggled to find the historical information that helps readers understand and appreciate the legacy of previously overlooked female Mexican ranchera singers from the 1930s and 1940s like Lucha Reyes and Eva Garza. Additionally I’ve begun to identify some of the missing voices in my parents’ music that shaped my childhood. The biographical research contained in the blogs on “The Frontera Collection” offers a rare source of information on the lives of the famous Mexican ranchera singers that populated my parents’ record collections. “The Frontera Collection” deconstructs the song’s popularity among Mexican-American listeners in their blog, “ Romance and Revolution in Sabor A Mi”, which recounts how the sensuous 1950s era ballad was the sonic backdrop to the political activism of young Chicano/as in East Los Angeles during the 1970s. Take the popular Mexican romantic ballad Sabor A Mi, which growing up I remember being played constantly by my parents during our backyard barbecues at home and on road trips to Mexico. The strength of the music blog posts comes from the writers’ attentiveness to the history of pressing issues of today like immigration, copyright laws, and gender studies and how they impacted Mexican and Mexican American recordings of the past. Yet this would qualify as a minor omission when compared with the site’s informative rotating blog posts on both little and well-known musical genres represented in “The Frontera Collection.” “The Frontera Collection” is one of my favorite sites for leisurely research because it replicates my beloved experience of browsing through the recorded world music at the public library for historical information on the communities and struggles that produced these sounds. The Strachwitz Frontera Collection contains over 125,000 digitized recordings originally issued on 78 rpm, 45 rpm, 33 1/3 rpm records and cassette tapes, yet navigating their website does not overwhelm the senses with the endless graphics and links that are common with older history blogs. While Arhoolie’s output has paused since being acquired by the Smithsonian Institution, the non-profit Arhoolie Foundation now collaborates with the UCLA Library on an immensely entertaining and educational blog on the history of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican American recordings. One of my favorite record labels, Arhoolie Records, based in California, produced scholarly, yet accessible research for the liner notes of their albums of ethnic music. Stacks of CDs in a library (via Wikimedia)
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