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[edit]Black Swan Records was an American jazz and blues record label founded in 1921 in Harlem, New York. It was the first widely distributed label to be owned, operated, and marketed to African Americans. (Broome Special Phonograph Records was the first to be owned and operated by African Americans).[1] Black Swan was established to give African Americans a label that would give them more creative liberties. [2]Black Swan was revived in the 1990s for CD reissues of historic jazz and blues recordings.
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[edit]- ^ Sutton and Nauck, p. 21, 27
- ^ Suisman, David. "Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Black Swan Records and the Political Economy of African American Music". The Journal of American History. Vol. 90: 1295 – via Jstor.
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