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Thread #135431 Message #3091166
Posted By: brezhnev
08-Feb-11 - 01:00 PM
Thread Name: Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings
Subject: RE: Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings
So sometimes "commercial" points to production and marketing, sometimes instead to the style of the performance
Cheers, Lighter. So what you're talking about here are discs made in 'art music style' for commercial purposes, but not recordings of traditional singers untrained in art music made for commercial purposes. I get it.