RE: denotation of "album"

[Seth Rogovoy <rogovoy...>]

yes, absolutely, I use the term "album" in my music journalism all the time,
interchangeably with "records," "recordings," etc.

It's a perfectly good word used to describe a full-length recording (as
opposed to a "single" recording) and just because the technology has changed
doesn't mean we have to throw it out.

Seth Rogovoy
author of "The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and
Soul"
newly arrived from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
http://www.algonquin.com/catalog/pagemaker.cgi?1-56512-244-5
"invaluable" -- New York Times, 8/28/00

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> [mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Robert Cohen
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 2:49 PM
> To: World music from a Jewish slant
> Subject: denotation of "album"
>
>
> Do folks on this list--and, I guess more importantly, do music
> lovers/buyers
> out there and the industry generally--(still) accept "album" as a term
> including CDs (and cassettes) in its scope?  (E.g., if a band has
> issued 10
> "records"--which I imagine is a less useful/narrower-scope term--of which
> some were LPs and/or cassettes and others were CDs and/or cassettes.)
>
> I realize that the word used to be used in re LPs--but bear in
> mind that it
> had *no* actual coherence w/ respect to that usage at all--just a
> holdover
> from its use for sets (i.e., albums--as in photograph albums) of
> 78s.  Its
> continued usage in re LPs was a fascinating example, I thought, of a word
> whose usage (to mean LPs) was accepted by all w/out any thought, though
> few--only older folks, actually--could explain, if asked, why a
> long-playing
> record was referred to as an "album."
>
> Anyway, do you think I can use it (e.g., on [CD] liner notes) to refer to
> CDs as well as LPs and cassettes?  *I* always (informally) use it
> thus, but
> ... should I?
>
> Thanks to all --
>
> Robert Cohen
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