1956 LP Record Ratings The Music Library Association's Index of Record Reviews

by Kurtz Myers, Richard S. Hill

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img{max-width:100%} Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping. We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day. Record Ratings: The Music Library Association's Index of Record Reviews Hardcover – 1956 by Kurtz Myers (Editor), Richard S. Hill (Editor) Record Ratings is essentially a guidebook pointing the way to a tremendous body of critical writing about recordings. The reviews of records in a large number of periodicals are indexed, and before each citation of a review, a symbol is given to show whether the reviewer judged the release to be excellent, adequate, or inadequate. On the theory that one critic can be biased, opinionated, or simply wrong, whereas many critics taken together may perhaps approach something like objective truth, a user of Record Ratings will find here an across-the-board report on the reactions of a representative group of critics to each release. To round up this information, the compiler has made many trips into the back files of numerous magazines that review recordings regularly—once to record the citation of the review and at least once more (and on occasion five or six times over) to distill the essence of the review and select a symbol to represent the distillation. These assigned symbols indicate what he, as a conscientious reporter, thought the critic thou

• Publisher: Crown
• Year: 1956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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