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A Cappella Live

live album

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ4655721 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Cappella Live is an album by Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson released in 1996 on the LKJ Records label. LKJ performs all the tracks, recorded at various venues in 1993 and 1994, without any accompaniment.

Track listing

Recording

1, 2, 5-7 recorded Beurschouwburg, Brussels, 1993

3, 4 recorded Dal Segno, Nijmegen, 1993

8, 13, 14 recorded Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Soho, London, 1994

9, 10, 12, 14 recorded St. Mark's Church, Piccadilly, London, 1993.

Editorial summary

“A Cappella Live” enters the record as live album. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cappella, Live and live can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 1993, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cappella, Live and live.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“A Cappella Live” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cappella, Live and live provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4655721. The first chronological checks are 1996, 1993 and 1994.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “A Cappella Live”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow A Cappella Live primary sources, A Cappella Live archive and Cappella research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “A Cappella Live” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.