Topic Records

Topic Records
Founded1939
FounderWorkers' Music Association
StatusActive
Distributor(s)Proper Music Distribution - City Hall Records[1] - SRI Canada - Claddagh Records - Planet Distribution - Southbound Records Australasia - Office Sambinha - IRD Spa - Central Distribution
GenreFolk music and World music
Country of originUnited Kingdom
LocationUppingham, Rutland
Official websiteTopicrecords.co.uk

Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival. It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world.[2]

  1. ^ Demmers, Mike (8 September 2011). "Cityhall". City Hall Records. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  2. ^ M. Brocken, The British Folk Revival 1944-2002 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 55-65.