Record collecting as community archiving (Chicago soul 45s)

CTL-E-1319 · Practice · other · 1995–2021

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The practice of hunting, preserving, and documenting obscure Chicago soul 45s and LPs — collecting as historical rescue of neighborhood music.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-056; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

Stax Museum of American Soul Music press release (2021); NPR/publicradioeast (May 19, 2021)
Stax Museum press release (2021)
publicradioeast/NPR (May 19, 2021)

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