A person who studies, documents, or catalogs phonograph records and their details.
From disco- (from Greek diskos, meaning disk) + -grapher (from Greek graphos, meaning writer or recorder). The term emerged in the 20th century as record collecting became a serious hobby and academic pursuit.
Discographers are detective-historians of music—they track down obscure release dates, pressing variations, and label details that most people don't even know exist. Some discographies have helped solve mysteries about whether a recording is genuinely rare or just a well-made bootleg!
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