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15th Dec 2016, 9:23 PM
	xiphophilos Member since Dec 2013 3351 Points Moderator	Both Victor and Columbia made a lot of records for ethnic communities in the USA. Sometimes, these recordings were even made abroad, but they were produced and sold in the United States. So all these discs should definitely be listed as US releases. I've created lists for the different ethnic series by Victor and Columbia. Columbia E Series (Ethnic Series for the immigrant market in the US) Columbia F-Series The Victor Ethnic Black Label list list so far contains: Victor V-prefix; 69000-series; 78000-series; 18-, 25-, 26-prefixes. There were also similar series of Bluebird recordings. There is a great series of discographies on the topic of ethnic records by Richard K. Spottswood: "Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942." v. 1. Western Europe -- v. 2. Slavic -- v. 3. Eastern Europe -- v. 4. Spanish, Portuguese, Philippine, Basque -- v. 5. Mid-East, Far East, Scandinavian, English language, American Indian, international -- v. 6. Artist index, title index -- v. 7. Record number index, matrix number index. Previews of part of these volumes are available on Google books. http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/45ssp5zs9780252017216.html Even better, for private, non-commercial use, Dick Spottswood is now offering updated versions of his research in pdf-format as a free download via the Mainspring Press website: Columbia E-Series Columbia C-Series (releases for the Spanish-language market) Edited by moderator on 11th Feb 2017, 10:20 PM