Segregating Sound Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow

Name: Segregating Sound Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
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ISBN: 9780822347002

ISBN-10: 0822347008

ISBN-13: 9780822347002

Edition: 2010

Authors: Karl Hagstrom Miller, Josh Kun, Ronald M. Radano

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InSegregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern American music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long heard and played music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, he chronicles how southern music, a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice, was reduced to a series of distinct genres associated with particular racial and ethnic identities. The blues were African American. Rural white southerners played what came to be called country music. By the 1920s, these depictions were touted in folk song collections and the catalogues of "race" and "hillbilly" records produced…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.41" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Tin Pan Alley on tour


The Southern Embrace of Commercial Music



Making Money Making Music


The Education of Southern Musicians in Local Markets



Isolating Folk, Isolating Songs


Reimagining Southern Music as Folklore



Southern Musicians and the Lure of New York City


Representing the South from Coon Songs to the Blues



Talking Machine World


Discovering Local Music in the Global Phonograph Industry



Race Records and old-time Music


The Creation of Two Marketing Categories in the 1920s



Black Folk and Hillbilly Pop


Industry Enforcement of the Musical Color Line



Reimagining Pop Tunes as Folk Songs


The Ascension of the Folkloric Paradigm


Afterword "All Songs is Folk Songs"


Notes


Bibliography


Index