The Ann & Samuel Charters archive of Portents : an independent record label & small press in the 1960s.

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The Ann & Samuel Charters archive of Portents : an independent record label & small press in the 1960s.

[ca. 273 p.] : facsims. ; 28 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8240483

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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University of Connecticut. Library

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Charters, Samuel Barclay

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Charters, Ann.

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For nearly the last 50 years, Samuel Charters has been discovering and documenting African American music. Starting as a field recorder for Folkways Records in 1954, Sam Charters has also served as recording director for Prestige and Vanguard Records, producer for Sonet Records and is the owner of Gazell Records . A prolific writer and poet, Charters has published many books about the blues and accounts of the lives of musicians who played the blues. In the field, he often collaborated with his ...