Charting race: The success of Black performers in the mainstream recording market, 1940 to 1990

Poetics

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 87-110

  Dowd, Timothy J ^a   Blyler, Maureen ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 3042854874     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-422X(02)00008-6     Document Type: Article

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