The phrase "a material record" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a physical or substantial document or evidence that holds significance or importance.
Example: "The lawyer presented a material record of the transaction to support her case in court."
Alternatives: "a substantial record" or "a physical record".
"Only very recently have they become aware that to establish their place in history, they need a material record of their work.
The exhibition material was procured by a salvage operation, a curatorial strategy that constitutes each artifact not as a reflection of any individual architect's intentions but as part of a material record of postmodernization and its effects on architecture.
They're perhaps asked most aggressively of the white men who lugged recording machines around various backwaters, many in cahoots, in one way or another, with the Library of Congress, having appointed themselves responsible for making a material record of some of folk music's many vernacular iterations.
But these scavengers also left behind a rich material record of what they stole, recovered, and reused.
The fact that there are different ways to produce the same handles, and even the same lines or slips, as seen earlier in the class, is one of the aspects that makes projects like this so intriguing and vital for a full understanding of the material record.
For more than a century The Bancroft Library has collected the material record of the West.
But in the material record, sampling is far from perfect.
A re-release of material recorded decades ago, "Inspiration Information" forms a bridge between classic funk and the neo-soul of the past few years.
In this week's issue and here online (see The Critics), Ben Greenman writes about the reëmergence of the early-seventies soul man Shuggie Otis and reviews his latest record, "Inspiration Information". A re-release of material recorded decades ago, "Inspiration Information" forms a bridge between classic funk and the neo-soul of the past few years.
He recovered, and the two have since recorded their first album together in nearly thirty years, "Common Ground," a lively reimagining of material recorded by Big Bill Broonzy.
In November 2010, the band released Not Music, a collection of unreleased material recorded at the same time as Chemical Chords.
