ABSTRACT
Summary
Discography was “invented” in the 1930’s by jazz collectors who wanted to learn more about the records they owned. Honed by a strong informal peer review system, standards for discographies have been well-accepted for decades. Discographies chronicle the formal and informal activities of the world-wide sound recording industry. Yet with the ubiquity of time-altering recording media, typified by editable magnetic tape, discographers face ever more vexing questions and challenges about what their work actually documents.
